Inner Idolatry and the I AM

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 10:6-7 reveals a universal drama: a people who imagine themselves under many gods, because their consciousness has forgotten the one I AM. The 'gods' are not weathered statues but states of mind—attachments to images of power, pleasure, or security that replace the LORD within. When Israel forsakes the LORD, the inner alignment is broken; the anger spoken of is the natural consequence of living as if the I AM were not here. The outer oppression—the Philistines, the Ammonites—then becomes the shadow the original inner choice has drawn forth. Yet this is not a history; it is a blueprint. You are never at the mercy of circumstance; you have only forgotten a state you already possess. Return to the awareness that you are the I AM and exercise imagination to dwell in prospering worship. See yourself seated in the throne of consciousness where no idol can rule, and watch the outer conditions answer your inner revision.