Neville Goddard on Isaiah 46:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 46 in context

Scripture Focus

5To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

6They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

7They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

Isaiah 46:5-7

Biblical Context

The passage contrasts the living God with man-made idols of gold and silver. Those idols cannot move, answer, or save.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the idol as a belief of limitation you carry in consciousness. In Isaiah, people carry a statue on the shoulder and set it in place, yet it cannot depart or respond. Neville would say: the statue is not a thing, but a state of mind you project as absolute authority. The true God is the I AM that you are, an awareness that can be hidden by habit and fear until you realize you cosmically resemble your own imagining. When you lavish attention on outer things—gold, silver, status, power—you are weighting your consciousness instead of aligning it with the living cause within. The moment you notice this, you can revise: you are not asking a distant idol for help; you are asking the I AM to awaken as your all-sufficiency. By imagining the inner Lord as present, the external 'idol' loses its grip and vanishes into nothingness. Your life responds to the mood of your consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe, and silently declare, 'I am the I AM, the true power within.' Then revise by picturing the idol slipping away as you hold the feeling of unshakable awareness and sufficiency.