The Inner State of Joy
2 Corinthians 2:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Corinthians 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
If I cause you sorrow, the one who makes me glad is the same person I have made sorrowful. It points to the inner reciprocity of feeling, where outer events reflect our own state of consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Your passage is the whisper of the I AM speaking through you. You are not two selves divided by distance; you are awareness itself, imagining itself into people and events. When you entertain sorrow toward another, you quietly imagine them as lacking, and you contract your own sense of gladness. The one who would make you glad is the very one you have made sorrowful by withholding your recognition of their wholeness. Therefore happiness does not depend on changing others, but on changing your state of consciousness. If you revise your assumption by becoming the I AM that already loves and accepts all, your gladness becomes your natural mood. Imagination creates reality; by dwelling in a state where compassion and joy coexist, you re-create the scene until sorrow dissolves into ease. The inner order governs the outer experience.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: Sit quietly and affirm, I AM the I AM, making all things glad. Revise the scene in your imagination to see the other as whole and joyful, and feel that gladness filling you as real.
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