Inner Sorrow, Inner Salvation
2 Corinthians 7:8-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Corinthians 7 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Paul’s letter stirred sorrow among the Corinthians, yet the passage teaches that godly sorrow leads to repentance and salvation, while worldly sorrow yields death.
Neville's Inner Vision
Verse 8–10 invites you to see correction as a shift in consciousness, not punishment. The epistle’s sting is imagination at work, waking you to a new state of being. The sorrow mentioned is the soul recognizing it has lived under a lesser assumption, thus turning toward the greater I AM. Godly sorrow is directional: it points your attention away from lack toward fulfillment, away from outer results toward inner certainty. When you answer from your true self—the awareness that you are already complete—you do not lament the past but welcome a turning of mind, a repentance that is simply a re-entrusting of your imagination to a higher idea. This new stance does not damage you; it frees you from the old self's claims. Salvation, thus, is not a future rescue but a realized state of consciousness you can inhabit now by choosing a different assumption and feeling it as real. Worldly sorrow, by contrast, clings to separate outcomes and leads to death through resistance to inner truth.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Tonight, close your eyes and declare, 'I am the I AM, salvation now.' Revise any sense of lack by mentally replacing it with fullness, and feel gratitude flooding your body as if the change already occurred.
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