Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 7:10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 7 in context

Scripture Focus

10And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Jeremiah 7:10

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 7:10 condemns going through religious motions in the temple while claiming deliverance to commit abominations. It exposes the gap between outward worship and inner life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your temple is not a building but a state of consciousness. To stand before the I AM while murmuring permission to sin is to violate the covenant you already bear. The verse points to hypocrisy: the inner 'we' that is called by God's name must not authorize outer abominations. When you imagine yourself as separate from the divine, you perform the ritual, yet you feel empty, because the true worship is lived as alignment of heart and deed. The I AM within is the living law; it does not excuse disobedience nor tolerate inner conflict. If you catch yourself saying, 'We are delivered to do...,' revise the statement into a new claim: 'I am delivered from the belief in separation; I now stand in the truth that I and God are one.' In this shift, the commandments are fulfilled not by ritual but by alignment of imagination with that oneness. Real faith is not a performance but a felt-state of complete integrity and love.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and imagine your mind as a sacred temple; declare I am the I AM, and I stand in truth, no more inner justifications. Feel the truth as real and let it soften all conflicting impulses.