Neville Goddard on Isaiah 48:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 48 in context

Scripture Focus

4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

5I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

Isaiah 48:4-5

Biblical Context

God knew their stubbornness and fixed posture, and He warned them in advance so they wouldn't blame idols for what would come to pass.

Neville's Inner Vision

Is not the obstinate posture of the people merely a picture of the mind that will not credit the I AM? The iron sinew and brass brow speak of fixed beliefs, the very apparatus by which you resist the truth that creates your world. God's foreknowledge in this text is not prophecy about others; it is a mirror of your own inner steadiness--your insistence that some idol or image commands your fate. Neville's psychology says all events arise from the state of consciousness you persist in. The idolatrous outwardness cannot move you until you locate the belief behind it and revise it. The remedy is simple and immediate: turn attention to the I AM within, assume the truth you desire as already real, and feel it with conviction until the external image aligns with it. When you do, the brass brow softens, the iron neck loosens, and the story you call life re-authors itself from within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the I AM; I choose now to revise this belief as if it were done.' Feel the sensation of relief as the old image loosens.