Inner Commandments Realized
Deuteronomy 4:1-2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Deuteronomy 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Deuteronomy 4:1-2 urges Israel to heed and act on God's statutes and judgments, doing them to live and possess the land; it also forbids adding to or subtracting from the word. In plain sense, obedience is fidelity to a fixed standard, and the 'land' represents the realized order within consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Is it not true that every outer event is but the echo of an inner decree? In this passage, the I AM asks you to listen to the statutes and judgments I teach you, and to do them, that you may live and enter the land of your consciousness. The 'land' is your awareness awakened to the stability of your own inner law. Do not add to the word nor diminish from it; this is a discipline of inner honesty: you are not to alter the divine command to satisfy fear or desire. When you align with the exactness of the word—no more, no less—you release your imagination to operate within a fixed, unwavering standard. The moment you claim that you already are this law, you begin to possess the land as a present fact. Your 'fathers' are the conditioning you inherit; your task is to keep faith with the original decree you are, not the clamor of the world. Imagination is the living command; it moves reality by the fidelity of your assumption and feeling it real.
Practice This Now
Assume the feeling of living by the inner statutes, repeating to yourself: 'I do not add to or diminish from the word; I am governed by this law.' Do this for five minutes, and let the inner order rewrite your perception as if you already possess the land.
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