Inner Sacrifice, True Worship

Neville's Inner Vision

Verse 16 reveals that the outward act of sacrifice is not the ingredient for divine approval; what pleases the 'God' within is the state of consciousness that would perform the offering from the I AM, not from guilt or habit. In Neville's light, the bloodless sacrifice is the renewal of mind: the willingness to turn away from merely doing to the decisive act of being. You are not seeking to appease an other; you are redefining the very I that seeks. The verse invites you to stop measuring yourself by burnt offerings and to begin measuring yourself by the quality of your inner awareness. When you imagine yourself as the I AM, already whole and surrendered to the present, the need to bargain with rites dissolves. The brain can rest in a new assumption: that your life is re-written from the inside out, and every outward form follows the inner shift. Your true worship is obedience born of faith that you are this consciousness and that every movement in you is an expression of it.