The Burdenless Inner Return

2 Corinthians 12:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Corinthians 12 in context

Scripture Focus

13For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
14Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
2 Corinthians 12:13-14

Biblical Context

Paul notes he was not burdensome to the church and asks forgiveness; he plans to come again not to take but to be present. The passage invites our inner life to see burdens as habits to revise, replacing lack with generous being.

Neville's Inner Vision

On the inner page, the speaker is not a man of coins, but a state of consciousness. The phrase not burdensome is a confession that you no longer carry others as debt, but move through life from the I AM who gives freely. When I hear 'I seek not yours, but you', I recognize that true relation is an act of inner alignment, where attention and affection flow from the God within, not from external duty. The third time I am ready to come signals the third act of faith, the moment I revise a habit of lack by returning to the one presence that sustains all: awareness itself. The line 'children ought not to lay up for the parents' becomes an inner law: the elder state must nourish the younger ideas and images with attention, trust, and imagination, while receiving back the life it breathes into them. Thus burden disappears as belief; you are not asked to pay with fatigue but to awaken to your abundance. Your 'I' is the I AM, the living same; by that, you and all your inner family are fed.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise: declare inwardly, 'I am not burdensome; I give freely from my abundance.' Then feel the truth by breathing into the chest and allowing the sense of not owing anything to anyone to fill your heart.

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