Neville Goddard on Isaiah 58:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 58 in context

Scripture Focus

1Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Isaiah 58:1-2

Biblical Context

God's messenger calls to reveal the people's transgressions while they profess devotion. True worship begins with inner alignment, not outward ritual.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Isaiah 58, the trumpet-call to cry aloud is an invitation to audit your inner state. The house of Jacob represents fixed self-images—the habits and identities by which you’ve defined yourself. Their sins are not mere acts but inner resistances to the I AM, the living awareness you possess. They seek God daily and delight in knowing his ways, yet treat righteousness as if it were an external code rather than a living consciousness. From the Neville vantage, God is not a distant judge but the I AM within you, ready to be recognized as your constant, creative presence. When you truly desire alignment, you shift from chasing external ordinances to assuming a state where you already embody justice. Revise your self-image to that of one who naturally lives righteously, and feel the feeling of living in harmony with divine law. Your inner worship becomes the decisive act—a revision of consciousness that makes thought, emotion, and action converge in truth.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the righteousness of God now.' Feel the inner trumpet of awareness sound through your thoughts, revealing and revising any limiting self-image; dwell in the state that you already live in harmony with justice, then act from that certainty.