Inner Idol, Outer Exile
Jeremiah 22:28 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 22 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah 22:28 presents Coniah as a despised, broken idol—an empty vessel cast out to a land unknown—illustrating the emptiness of hollow worship and its exile from inner truth.
Neville's Inner Vision
Coniah is not a distant prince but a state of consciousness: despised, broken, and a vessel wherein is no pleasure. The verse asks whether such an inner condition pleases the I AM that you are. To be cast out into a land you know not is to be moved from familiar patterns of thought into the unknown terrain of awareness, where you discover that true security and delight come from within, not from forms. The apparent judgment arises when you worship appearances rather than the living Presence within. To restore harmony, assume a new ruler: I AM, the conscious Self that loves every vessel of awareness. Let that Presence guide you instead of the idol of success, fear, or reputation. Revise the scene by dwelling in the felt sense of inner delight, feeling-it-real, and allow the inner land to become home again. As you align with the I AM, the broken pieces mend and exile dissolves, revealing a home-soil of awareness beneath your feet.
Practice This Now
Assume the I AM as the ruler of your inner vessel and revise the sense that you are an exile. Feel the inner delight returning as a tangible sense of home in the chest and let that feeling-it-real continue until it remains.
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