Crossing Zered Within: Inner Wilderness
Deuteronomy 2:12-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Deuteronomy 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The Horims dwelt in Seir; Esau's descendants displaced them, and Israel took possession of the land. Then the people are commanded to cross the brook Zered, and 38 years pass from Kadesh-barnea until the generation of warriors has fallen away.
Neville's Inner Vision
Do you see that the page speaks not of lands and borders alone, but of states of consciousness? The Horims are the old, cramped forms of limitation that once ruled Seir in your mind; Esau's heirs are the voices that insist the wait is endless. Yet Israel, the inner I AM, takes possession of a land bestowed by the LORD of your awareness. The command rise up and cross the brook Zered is a call to step through a boundary you have accepted as final and to enter a larger self. The 38 years between Kadesh-barnea and Zered mirror your own long apprenticeship in perception, where the belief in lack fades as you choose allegiance to the promise. The LORD swore to them; so too your certainty is sworn, not to a nation, but to the truth that you are already in possession in consciousness. When you refuse to rehearse the old tale and instead dwell in the feeling of fulfillment, you shorten the march and awaken to the land that has always been yours in the I AM.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Assume the inner truth that you have already crossed your Zered. Feel the old fears dissolve and dwell in the conviction that you possess the promised land in consciousness now.
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