Inner Worship and the Heart

Neville's Inner Vision

God here is not a distant judge but the intimate I AM you awaken to in every breath. When the Psalmist speaks of forgetting the name of God or stretching out to a strange god, he points to the habit of imagining yourself under some power outside your own awareness. The 'name' is the recognition of your own divine identity, the I AM that you are in truth. To forget it is to drift into forgetfulness of self, to worship a belief system, a habit, or an image as if it were God. But the inner God is never absent; He searches the heart and reveals the true disposition beneath your acts. Therefore, the invitation is to return home—to revise any supposed idol by recognizing that all power, all meaning, resides in the I AM within you. True worship, then, is not outward ceremony but a continuous alignment of your feeling and thought with that awareness. As you dwell in the sense of "I AM," the 'strange god' loses its claim, and your heart reveals its secrets to itself, clearly and lovingly.