Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 10:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 10 in context

Scripture Focus

3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Jeremiah 10:3-4

Biblical Context

The verse condemns vain customs: people carve a tree, ornament it with silver and gold, and nail it in place so it cannot move. It portrays worship that is external and lifeless rather than inward and alive.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah's description of 'customs' is not about wood, but about a fixed state of mind. The tree cut from the forest is a thought-form you plant in imagination as a source of security or identity; the hands and axe are the mental craft you use to shape and defend it. The silver and gold are your desires and rituals that fix the image, making it seem motionless in a world that flows. In Neville's terms, an idol is a belief you cling to, a substitute for the living I AM that animates all. When you polish and nail the image you have made, you are worshipping a statue of your own making. The remedy is inner revision: awaken to the truth that God is the I AM within, the living presence behind every form. Return your attention to the consciousness that moves all, and let the idol dissolve as you affirm, I am the I AM.

Practice This Now

Practice: Close your eyes and unfasten the nails from your idol of fixed security, remove its adornments, and let it melt into light while you affirm I am that I am, dwelling in the living presence.