Neville Goddard on 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

1 Thessalonians 1:9-10

Biblical Context

They turned from idols to serve the living and true God. They await Jesus, raised from the dead, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Neville's Inner Vision

Suppose you are the Thessalonian in spirit. The entering in they demonstrated was not a religious ceremony but a state of consciousness in which idols—images of fear, lack, and ego—lose authority. To turn to God is to shift allegiance from picture-thinking to the I AM that lives as you. When you assume, 'I am in God now,' you serve the living and true God by aligning with the one reality that never falters. The phrase 'wait for his Son from heaven' becomes an inner waiting, a patient recognition that the Son is not a distant event but the risen consciousness within you, the awareness that Jesus lives in you as life and order. Raised from the dead is the proof that consciousness is vivified beyond fear, delivering you from the 'wrath to come'—the inner storm of separation. Thus, the verse describes a practical transformation: enter into God, turn from imaginative idols, serve from the I AM, and await the manifested Son within, here and now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare I am turning to God from idols now, serving the living and true God within me. Imagine the I AM widening, the Son within you awakening, and the inner wrath dissolving as you rest in that realization.