Neville Goddard on Isaiah 58:13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 58 in context

Scripture Focus

13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Isaiah 58:13

Biblical Context

Isaiah 58:13 invites turning away from self-indulgent pleasure on the Sabbath and to call the day a delight, honoring the LORD within by not pursuing one’s own ways or words. In Neville's view, this is a shift of consciousness from ego to I AM, where rest and reverence become the daily atmosphere of awareness.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard tradition, the Sabbath is not a calendar event but a state of consciousness. When you turn away your foot from the sabbath—that is, from following the ego’s impulses toward personal pleasure—you are choosing a posture of awareness over appetite. To call the Sabbath a delight is to inhabit a moment where the I AM within you is the ruler and the source of what you deem sacred. Honor God by refraining from your own ways and your own words; let speech be governed by the sanctity of the inner altar rather than the ego’s script. The holy day becomes your present mood of reverence, a sanctuary you carry as you move through the day. Obedience and faithfulness arise as natural expressions of a mind resting in God rather than in self. As imagination creates reality, you begin to notice a shift: the outer world reflects the inner atmosphere of delight, and presence takes the place of pressure. Practice this inner Sabbath until delight feels native, not occasional.