Inner Light and Time's Judgment

Ecclesiastes 11:7-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 11 in context

Scripture Focus

7Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:
8But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
9Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Ecclesiastes 11:7-10

Biblical Context

The passage speaks of the sweetness of light and the sun, warns that life’s years include darkness and vanity, and invites the young to rejoice while remembering divine judgment and the need to let sorrow go.

Neville's Inner Vision

Truly, the words call you to see the whole of life as a stage of consciousness. Light and the sun are not celestial events but your own inner clarity, a beam of awareness that makes every experience appear and vanish in the screen of your mind. When the text says rejoice in youth and walk in the ways of the heart, hear it as: cherish the vitality of the present state while remaining aware that every outward incarnation is temporary and subject to inner judgment. The command that God will bring thee into judgment is not punishment from an external deity, but the accountability of your own I AM to every thought and impression you entertain. Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh—let sorrow be a misperception and evil a habit you revise by shifting belief to the I AM that already knows, loves, and sees rightly. Childhood and youth are vanity as long as you cling to them externally; see them as changing states of consciousness to be used, not clung to. Your real life is the constant, unchanging awareness behind all becoming.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare 'I AM the light of this day' and feel the sun within brighten the room. Then revise the thought 'this moment is vanity' by affirming 'this moment is the I AM in expression.'

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