Inner Order Under The Sun

Ecclesiastes 8:9-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Ecclesiastes 8 in context

Scripture Focus

9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
14There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 8:9-14

Biblical Context

Ecclesiastes 8:9-14 portrays life under the sun as unfair and puzzling: rulers over others, the wicked forgotten, and justice seeming delayed. The preacher calls such comparisons vanity.

Neville's Inner Vision

All these scenes you call the world are moves of your own consciousness. The voice in Ecclesiastes speaks of a time when one man rules over another to his own hurt, and a time when the wicked are buried and forgotten; such images are the language of the inner weather, not distant fate. In Neville’s language, nothing happens in the outer except that your inner I AM arrives in a new mood. When sentences against evil do not come quickly, you grow impatient and project that impatience into your life; you are rehearsing the belief you already carry. The sinner who prospers and the righteous who suffer are two expressions of the same inner law, not separate destinies. The true work is to align with God, the I AM, the awareness that judges only from within. When you fear not before God—when you trust the inner law—you shorten the delay between state and expression. Vanity vanishes when you dwell as the living vision of the desired outcome, not as the spectator of an external theater. See the entire scene as the inner shift of your consciousness, and peace will be the outpicturing.

Practice This Now

Assume the state: I am the ruler of my life, and the outer scene reflects the harmony I hold within. Revise any sense of delay by silently declaring, 'In this moment, I AM in perfect order; justice flows from my awareness.'

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