Inner Forty Days Atonement
Deuteronomy 9:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Deuteronomy 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Moses fell before the LORD for forty days and nights, fasting because the people had sinned and provoked God. He sought mercy and a turning away from judgment.
Neville's Inner Vision
Notice that the 'fast' and the prostration are not external feats but interior acts of attention. Moses, in this line, stands as a state of consciousness—the I AM choosing to refuse the ordinary self-supply and to dwell in the breath of mercy. The people's sins reflect a belief in separation from the divine life; the anger of the LORD represents a memory of guilt in the mind. When Moses falls to the ground for forty days and nights, he does not compel God from without; he casts the entire scene into his own inner atmosphere and emerges with a changed inner weather. The miracle is not an event outside but a revision of the internal scene: by assuming the feeling of already-existing forgiveness, the mind dissolves the illusion of estrangement. This is the practice: enter a state of repentance as an ongoing, steady mood; imagine you are the very I AM that forgives and embraces; stay with the feeling entrance until it becomes your reality. Then mercy becomes your present condition, and the outer world reflects it.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and declare: I am the mercy I seek. Envision yourself freely forgiven, and feel the inner weather shift until it is your reality.
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