Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 16:11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 16 in context

Scripture Focus

11And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

Deuteronomy 16:11

Biblical Context

God commands you to rejoice before the Lord with everyone in your community—the family, servants, Levite, stranger, fatherless, and widow—where God has chosen to place his name. It anchors worship in a communal, inclusive joy.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the command to rejoice is a call to the state of consciousness in which you recognize the whole of life as God’s presence. The 'place' where the Lord’s name is established is within your own awareness—the sanctuary of I AM. When you say you will rejoice before the Lord, you are embracing every aspect of life as integral to your being: the son and daughter, the servant and the Levite within, the stranger, the fatherless, the widow. These are not external persons only but projections of your inner world, invited to stand in your attention as manifestations of the one life. Rejoicing is not outward merriment alone; it is the revision of your feeling from separation to unity, from lack to abundance, from fear to love. In such inner worship, presence becomes tangible, and the community you imagine is a reflection of your own interior unity. You awaken to the truth that God’s name is in you, and your life becomes a perpetual celebration of that realization.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe, and assume, I rejoice before the Lord my God, sensing that my inner sanctuary holds every aspect of life as one family. See in your mind each figure—son, daughter, servant, Levite, stranger, fatherless, widow—standing within your awareness as present and embraced.