Fire in Egypt's Idols

Neville's Inner Vision

I enter Jeremiah 43:12 as a mirror for my inner life. The 'Egypt' is the place where I have worshiped limited thought, the idols of doubt, fear, and scarcity. The 'houses of the gods' are the fixed beliefs I have treated as ultimate powers. The 'fire' kindled by God is the awakening of awareness, a shift that burns away those illusions, not the destruction of people but the removal of their grip on my reality. When I let the old idols burn, I am carried away in captivity to nothing but the truth of I AM, yet 'carried away' means I am freed from attachment to those idols. I then 'array myself with the land of Egypt' as a shepherd might don his garment—a new covering of confidence and responsibility, practiced in daily life. Finally, I go forth in peace, because the moment the idols fall, the mind returns to its right order: awareness as God, and me as that awareness, free to live from inner peace rather than outer circumstance.