The Imagination Of The Heart

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verse speaks of walking after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim. In Neville’s terms, imagination is not merely fancy—it's the inner governor that commands the conditions of your life. The Baalim symbolize fixed images you submit to as reality: the craving for approval, wealth, safety, or identity. These idols are not external stones; they are habitual beliefs taught by the 'fathers' of habit within you, listened to until they seem to be your world. Yet God is the I AM here, the aware presence that can revise any image. You are not bound to those inner pictures; you are the one who creates and can re-create by a single, deliberate act of consciousness. To break the cycle, assume a state that receives and uses a different image: I am the I AM; this imagination serves me now, and the old idol dissolves as I insist on the truth of my inner life. Persist in feeling the revised image as real, and the outward sign will shift to match the inward worship of the one I AM.