Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 6:12-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 6 in context

Scripture Focus

12Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

13Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

14Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

15(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 6:12-15

Biblical Context

It warns you to remember the Lord who freed you from bondage, to fear and serve Him, and not chase other gods. It cautions that pursuing external deities provokes the Lord's jealous anger.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the verse as a call to wake from forgetfulness. In your true nature you are the I AM, the ever-present consciousness that freed you from 'Egypt'—the dream of limitation. When you forget this, you drift toward ‘other gods’—images, beliefs, appetites, reputations—things you fashion as ultimate powers. The moment you fear the I AM and bow to appearances, you reveal the lie that you are apart from your source. The “jealous God” is not a wrathful boss outside you; it is the exact magnetic pull of your own mind when it loses sight of its essential unity. The remedy is to restore allegiance to your inner Lord by willing, feeling, and acting from the awareness that you are already free and complete. Serve him by aligning thoughts, feelings, and choices with the truth of your oneness; swear by the name of the I AM—name your identity as the expression of God in you. When you do this, the 'land' of bondage dissolves and you stand in the promised realization of your own inner kingdom.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the I AM as the sole ruler of your life; declare, 'I am the I AM, the Lord of my world.' Feel the old bonds dissolve as distractions are revised into devotion.