Entering the Inner Kingdom Now
2 Peter 1:8-11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read 2 Peter 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Peter teaches that when certain virtues are present and growing within you, you will be fruitful in the knowledge of Christ; neglecting them leads to blindness and forgetting your cleansing. Diligence in aligning with these qualities ensures a firm calling and a welcoming entrance into the kingdom.
Neville's Inner Vision
In Neville's reading, these 'things' are not external deeds but inner states of consciousness you cultivate. If they abound in you, you shall not be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of Christ—the lived awareness that you are already purged and whole. The blindness mentioned is the mind forgetting its true condition, confusing appearances with reality and thereby forgetting the cleansing you already received. The instruction to give diligence becomes a command to revise your self-concept until your calling and election are sure, to act as if the kingdom is present and yours. Persisting in embodying virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love unlocks an entrance into the everlasting kingdom—an inner gate opened by conviction, not by circumstance. The kingdom is not a distant place but the awareness you awaken now. To affirm these qualities is to awaken to who you are in God, and to live from that inner sovereignty in every moment.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and assume the state of virtue and assurance as your living reality; picture yourself already at the gate of the everlasting kingdom, and silently affirm, 'I am entering now.'
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