Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 7:6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 7 in context

Scripture Focus

6And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

1 Samuel 7:6

Biblical Context

Israel gathers at Mizpah, pours out water, fasts, and confesses, acknowledging their sin before the LORD; Samuel serves as the inner judge.

Neville's Inner Vision

At Mizpah you are invited to witness the inner tribunal of consciousness. The water poured out is the symbolic shedding of a stale self-story—beliefs that you are distant from God. The fast is not fasting from food but fasting from outward distractions, a turning of attention toward the I AM within. When they say, 'We have sinned against the LORD,' they are not lamenting a past deed but waking to the truth that separation was a mental state you can revise. Samuel is your inner judge—a discerning state of awareness that calls you back to alignment with the divine I AM. In this inner drama the outer ritual points to an inner practice: you revise your sense of self until you feel the presence of God here and now. The result is not political settlement but a shift of state: reconciliation of your mind with God, reasserting your unity with the source of all.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of forgiveness now; imagine pouring out water from an inner cup, letting go of the old guilt. Then rest in the felt sense of the I AM within, and listen for its quiet verdict of unity.