Neville Goddard on Amos 8:10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Amos 8 in context

Scripture Focus

10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Amos 8:10

Biblical Context

The verse says God will turn outward celebrations into mourning, signaling a divine call to shift from surface joy to an inner, more serious state.

Neville's Inner Vision

Amos 8:10 speaks to your psyche in the language of feast and lament. The outward festival you call celebration is the surface of a deeper state of mind. When God says He will turn your feasts into mourning, He signals that your present dominant feeling is not joy but a belief you must revise. The sackcloth and baldness are symbols of stripping away the old identity you wear. In Neville's terms, the world is an image of your inner assumption. Do not fight the outer noise; change the inner assumption until the inner sensation matches the wish fulfilled. The mourning is a threshold, not a sentence: a cue to withdraw attention from the old self and reimagine the self as whole, loved, and sustained by the I AM. If you hold the feeling of deprivation, that is what you will experience; if you revise to I AM rich, well, and serene, the outer life follows, altered by this new mood. The transition from outward celebration to inward seriousness is simply a shift of state of consciousness under the one I AM.

Practice This Now

Practice: Sit quietly, assume the inner feast by saying 'I AM' and feel the fullness of peace as your baseline. If lack thoughts arise, revise them to the image of inner abundance until the feeling sticks.