Zeal for the Inner House

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard vantage, the verse is not about a temple in Jerusalem, but the inner house you keep in mind. The 'zeal of thine house' is the fiery conviction of your awareness—an intense, loving determination to honor and protect the sacred space within you where God, the I AM, dwells. When you align with that inner temple, you may feel eaten up by the very flame that purifies, for zeal burns away compromise and fear. The 'reproaches of them that reproached thee' are not told about outsiders; they are the projections of your own mind testing your commitment. As you identify with the God within, you attract voices of doubt and judgment, which fall upon you as the body's experience of their thought. Yet you can choose another response: stay with the I AM, revise the sense of separation, and let the reproach dissolve into the certainty that you are the temple itself, the knower of all things.