Gilded Idols Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To the letter of Isaiah I bring the living truth: these 'gods' are not metal but states of consciousness. The bag of gold, the balance, the hired craftsman—all are inner habits that value form over essence. When you worship the idol you have made, you are worshipping a belief you have banked in your own mind as if it were reality. The true God, the only real Power, is the I AM—the steady awareness that underlies every sensation, thought, and image. The moment you cease feeding the idol with your attention and revise the assumption that anything but the I AM can save you, the idol loses its sway. You awaken not by fighting the statue but by returning to the living presence within. This verse invites you to examine what you call valuable and to reassign that value to the impersonal I AM. In that shift, the outward god dissolves and you discover that true worship is awareness itself, unbound by matter, fear, or dependence.