Judgment Turned To Awakening
Amos 6:12-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Amos 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Amos shows a people who turn true justice into gall and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock, while boasting in self-made strength. The text warns that punishment will rise from a foreign nation, sweeping from Hemath to the wilderness, as a call to inner change.
Neville's Inner Vision
Think of the rock as your fixed state of consciousness and the plow as a crude attempt to force life from that ground. The turning of judgment into gall means your judgments are poisoned by pride, and the fruit of righteousness becomes hemlock when you value outward success above inner truth. You boast, 'Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?'—a clear denial of the I AM. Yet I, the I AM within you, will not abandon you to such mistake. I will raise up against you a nation—an inner shift of power that moves through Hemath to the river of the wilderness—until you awaken to a new alignment with awareness. This is not punishment from elsewhere but a correction of a false state. When you revise inwardly and feel the truth of I AM as your life, judgment becomes just and life becomes a fountain of righteousness, not poison. The upheaval you fear dissolves into clarity as you dwell in awareness.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, revise the scene by affirming, 'I AM the righteous judge of my life; awareness governs my ways.' Then feel this new inner state as real in your body, letting it replace the old fear-based judgments.
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