Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 5:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 5 in context

Scripture Focus

4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

Ecclesiastes 5:4-6

Biblical Context

The passage urges keeping vows made to God and warns that it is better not to vow than to vow and not pay; it cautions against reckless speech that can ruin what one builds.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the vow is not a message to a distant deity but an inner covenant you harbor in the I AM. When you vow and fail to pay, you break the alignment between your outer life and the inner conviction that you are consciousness manifested. The angel is your own higher states calling for integrity; to claim an error is to deny your creative power. The faithful life is therefore a steady alignment of thought, word, and deed to a single decreed purpose. If you fear you cannot keep a promise, you revise your state by shifting into one where the vow is natural to your present being. God becomes the I AM who rejoices when your work flows from a coherent inner decree. Your reality follows your inner decision; keep it steady, and the world will respond with ordered expressions.