Desire as Good Inner Work
1 Timothy 3:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 1 Timothy 3 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse states that desiring the office of bishop is a true saying and signals a good work. It suggests that ambition for leadership can be a prompt to service when understood as a noble inner vocation.
Neville's Inner Vision
To the aware mind, this line reveals that desire is not a shadow to be denied, but a signpost pointing to the good work already present in your being. In Neville’s psychology, you do not chase an office; you awaken the inner I AM to BE that office now. The office is not a seat in a congregation but the disciplined state of mind—order, discernment, service—that would express itself through you when you assume you already stand there. When you imagine yourself in leadership, you are not fabricating a future; you are returning to the place where it already exists in possibility. The "desire" becomes a quiet conviction that you are commissioned to serve, and the world—people, events, community—unfolds from that inner reality. Your responsibility is to protect the inner unity, to listen, to be wise, to love. The good work is inner stewardship that radiates outward as harmony. So, treat the desire as a signal to revise your self-concept until it matches the reality of the I AM holding the office in your divine imagination. The outer world will follow.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: for 5 minutes, sit quietly and assume the feeling, 'I am the bishop now in spirit,' and see yourself guiding with wisdom; when other thoughts arise, revise to the feeling of accomplishment and service.
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