Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 14:14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 14 in context

Scripture Focus

14And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

1 Samuel 14:14

Biblical Context

Jonathan and his armourbearer killed about twenty men in a half-acre, a striking, decisive victory in a small space.

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the outer slaughter is never first; it is the inner decision that births it. The scene in 1 Samuel 14:14 is a meditation on the power of one persistent assumption. The land, the half-acre, is the field of your present awareness, a boundary that yields when you refuse to accept limitation. Jonathan and his armourbearer are not two men with swords as much as two aspects of consciousness united by trust in the I AM. The twenty slain represent twenty doubts, twenty fragments of fear, which melt when the mind asserts a single, unwavering fact: I AM. When you live from that I AM, the armor is the discipline of imagination that cooperates with your assumption, and the slaughter of resistance takes place within the mind, dissolving the apparent constraints of the outer world. The deliverance and the scale of victory come not from greater force but from a deeper, steadier state of consciousness. The outer scene merely confirms the inner resolution, proving that sight follows state.