Inner Judgment of Idolatry

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the words as spoken to your inner state. When you have forsaken the I AM—when your attention has wandered toward imagined powers outside your unity—you are inviting a judgment of your own making, because judgment is simply the natural response of your consciousness to its dominant belief. The 'other gods' are not distant deities but thoughts, images, and feelings you have enthroned above your true self. The 'works of their hands' are the outward things you lean on for security: money, status, control, opinions. In truth, these are images in your mind that you have worshipped as real. The moment you begin to feel separation from the One, you experience the inner sentence that says: this is not God; this is not the I AM; this is what I must trust. Yet you are the I AM, and you can revise any position by returning attention to the Source within, reasserting that the I AM is the unchanging governor of all you perceive. When you reinterpret judgment as the correction of belief, you cease worshipping false powers and awaken to your true sovereignty.