Inner Idols Birth of Self
Isaiah 57:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 57 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Isaiah 57:5 warns that fixing the heart on external images and idols dim inner life and slays living possibilities. It shows that true worship begins in inner awareness rather than outer signs.
Neville's Inner Vision
Isaiah 57:5 is a map of the mind. The enflaming with idols is not a forest rite but a habit of fixing consciousness on pictures and bowing to them as if they govern you. The 'children' you slay are your living possibilities—the dreams and starts you refuse to birth when you trust a symbol over your I AM. The 'valleys' and 'cliffs' are the hidden rooms of memory where fear sits in miniature thrones. When you worship an outer image, you become the spectator of life rather than its creator, and the movement of God within you stalls. But the Spirit within, the I AM, is steady and unchanging and can redraw the map with one simple act: assume the state of the wish fulfilled and refuse to give reality to any idol. If you dwell in the awareness that you are the I AM, the outer image dissolves, and life flows through you as new vision, new possibilities, and new birth—not by ritual, but by inner assurance and revision.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and imagine the fulfilled desire as already yours, feeling the I AM presence in every cell for 1–3 minutes; then declare, 'I AM the source of my life,' and replace any idol-image with the sensation of fearless inner creation.
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