Quiet Power: Choosing Good Always
1 Thessalonians 5:15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Thessalonians 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Do not render evil for evil; instead, continually pursue what is good in every relation, among yourselves and toward all people.
Neville's Inner Vision
The verse is not a command against others, but a directive to shift your internal state. Evil for evil is a belief you momentarily inhabit; to follow good is to identify with the I AM within and to act from that center. When you refuse retaliation, you align with the creative power that animates all life. Your world shifts as you imagine yourself as the one who responds with benevolence, not with reactivity. See every interaction as a choice of states: you either entertain grievance or you affirm goodness. By consistently inhabiting the feeling-tone of goodwill toward all, you rewrite the inner script and the outer scene follows. The inner law is simple: the mind that chooses good becomes the life that mirrors it. In this practice, your peace becomes the law others respond to, dissolving cycles of hurt and awakening a more loving community within and around you.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume the state of constant goodwill toward all; in a current relationship, visualize responding with love and forgiveness, and feel the warmth of that choice in your chest.
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