Neville Goddard on Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 7 in context

Scripture Focus

13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.

Ecclesiastes 7:13-14

Biblical Context

The verse points to a divine order beyond human will. It invites us to see prosperity and adversity as inward teachers that lead us toward the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your God is the I AM, and the work of God is the ordering of your inner world. The 'crooked' and the 'straight' belong not to fate, but to your state of consciousness; you cannot alter outer shapes unless you revise the inner assumptions that produced them. When you are in prosperity, rest in gratitude and let the feeling of wholeness arise, for you are the cause of your own good by awareness. When you meet adversity, do not resist; examine the belief behind the scene and revise it with the thought, I AM the cause of all I experience. The line that God has set the one over against the other is a gentle push toward inner unity: contrast is a tutor that urges you to seek the I AM rather than external remedies. Thus, find nothing after Him means there is only the I AM; all experiences are invitations to awaken.

Practice This Now

Act: assume the state that this order is constant; revise the circumstance as already ordered by God, and feel it real by imagining a soft golden light relocating the crooked to straight. Feel the inner ease spreading until you know nothing is after the I AM.