Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 8:2-3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 8 in context

Scripture Focus

2And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

Deuteronomy 8:2-3

Biblical Context

The passage recalls God guiding the Israelites through forty years in the wilderness to humble and test them, proving whether they would keep His commandments. It also declares that life comes not from bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the surface history is a portrait of the inner drama of consciousness. The wilderness is your present state; hunger is the sense of lack that invites you to listen. The manna stands for the revelation that flows when you quiet the outward appetite and attend to the Word that proceeds from the I AM within you. God’s lead is not an external itinerary but a method to reveal what is in your heart—whether you will keep the inner command and live by it. When deprivation appears, you are being humbled to turn from craving to awareness, from worldly supply to divine instruction. The true nourishment is the Word that sustains you—the living idea given by the mouth of the LORD within. If you revise your sense of lack by assuming you are already fed by that Word, you taste the manna now; your faith matures, and obedience becomes natural, not forced. Thus the forty years condense into a single present moment of alignment, where every thought, feeling, and action is fed by the I AM and reflects its bounty.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe, and affirm, I am led by the inner Word; hunger is acknowledged and transmuted into listening. Then feel the manna of insight nourishing you.