Uprooting Groves Within the Soul
Micah 5:14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Micah 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Micah 5:14 speaks of God uprooting the groves of pagan worship and destroying the cities built on false worship, signaling a deep interior cleansing. The outward judgment mirrors an interior release from idols, making room for true worship within.
Neville's Inner Vision
Imagine you are listening to a voice within that speaks as Micah's God. The groves to be plucked are beliefs you have made into idols—fear, lack, or attachment—and the cities are the patterns of life built upon them. When you accept that the I AM in you is the authority, the inner forest is felled and the outer city dissolves into spaciousness. This is not punishment but a clearing of inner sight, so that what remains is true worship: attention given to the living awareness within, not to images that pass. The outer events then realign to reflect the new inner order, for your consciousness determines what you call real. The verse invites you to relinquish the old worship and affirm the presence that never leaves you; as you do, you experience judgment as the shedding of belief that binds you to a broken form, and you awaken to the freedom of the true temple inside.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and repeat, 'I AM that I AM'; imagine standing before inner groves and plucking them up, watching the space become bright and city walls dissolve. Then rest in the feeling that true worship is the sustained awareness of I AM within.
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