Inner Idols, Inner God

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 3:7 reads like a map of the inner man. When the children of Israel turn evil in the sight of the LORD, it is not a history of nations but a disclosure of states of consciousness. Forgetting the LORD their God is the moment a consciousness forgets its own I AM, and Baalim and the groves are not distant deities but the habituated images and joys that command attention. The I AM is the awareness behind all feeling; the Baalim are the pulsing pictures that pretend to govern your inner weather. The groves signify cultivated attachments—subtle rituals of approval, status, or sensation that you mistake for life. The Psalmist's cry warns: when you yield to these inner idols, you imagine a separate power ruling the self, while you remain the same I AM. The cure is clear: return attention to the one Source, revise the scene in imagination, and feel yourself reconciled to God within. In that act, the bondage dissolves, and worship becomes inner alignment, not outward ritual.