Inner Day of the Lord
Malachi 4:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Malachi 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Malachi 4:1 describes a day that will burn like an oven, destroying the proud and the wicked and leaving them without root or branch. In plain terms, it's a vivid image of inner purification—egoic patterns burned away by the act of awareness.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Neville, the day that cometh is the moment you recognize you are the I AM, the self that can burn away nothingness within. The oven-like heat is not a future punishment but a turning of attention. Pride and wickedness are inner stances—habitual judgments, fear, and self-importance—that have become 'stubble' in your consciousness. When you refuse to feed them with assumption, they are consumed by awareness, leaving neither root nor branch. The verse urges total cleansing, not to destroy you but to awaken you to your truer state. The Lord of hosts refers to the commanding I AM within you; it is the power that seals your inner temple by seeing through limitation, dissolving it. Your task is to align your present feeling with this truth: imagine yourself as already pure, already free, and let the inner fire do its work by collapsing old patterns under the light of awareness. In this light, you do not fight the fire but accept its transformation, knowing you emerge renewed as the living witness of God within.
Practice This Now
Practice: Close your eyes, breathe, and assume the state, 'I AM pure now.' Then visualize an inner furnace of light burning away pride and stubble, leaving you rooted in the I AM.
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