Neville Goddard on Malachi 1:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Malachi 1 in context

Scripture Focus

12But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

13Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

Malachi 1:12-13

Biblical Context

Malachi 1:12-13 exposes how people profane the LORD's table by offering polluted sacrifices and calling worship a weariness, then questions whether such offerings are acceptable.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Malachi, the table of the LORD is not a mere altar of stone but the inner table of awareness you feed on in silence. When you call worship a weary duty and offer what is torn, lame, or sick in your thoughts and feelings, you are affirming a consciousness that denies its own fullness. The prophet asks: should I accept this from your hand? In Neville's sense, the I AM within you is the judge and the fount: it does not condemn your humanity, but it rejects any act of worship that comes from scarcity or resentment. To profane the offering is to invest a lack of reverence into your own state of being. True worship arises when you align your inner movements with the presence you call God; you feed on the idea, and thus become it. Make the switch from weariness to reverent expectancy by imagining that the best of your life is fully presented to the I AM, not as a future dream but as a finished, aware act. In that moment, the covenant loyalty is kept by choosing to dwell in the divine I AM here and now.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly and visualize the inner table of awareness; place your best qualities on it as a complete feast and feel that you are already the presence you seek.