Swift Judgment and Inner Change

Neville's Inner Vision

Ecclesiastes 8:11 speaks of a natural law: absence of swift external consequence invites the mind to justify and persist in wrongdoing. Neville Goddard would reinterpret this as a revelation of the inner law: there is no delay in the I AM, only in awareness of it. The “sentence” following an evil act is your inner verdict; if you do not revise it promptly, your habitual self settles into the pattern and grows confident in the fault. The true judge is the I AM, present and immediate, correcting or dissolving patterns as you assume the right state. By dwelling in a state that condemns the old act and affirms its dissolution, you reverse the current. See the troubling tendency being judged and removed within you, so impulse becomes aligned with higher action. As you rest in the assumption of an immediate inner renewal, the outer world gradually reflects a new state of mind, and you experience the elimination of the need for any delayed correction.