Direct Hearing Within
Exodus 20:19 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Exodus 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The Israelites fear God's direct voice and ask Moses to speak for them, seeking safety through mediation. This scene reveals a mindset of holiness as distant and feared, demanding an inner shift to hear God directly.
Neville's Inner Vision
Take the text as a map of your inner life. The people's plea for a mediator mirrors the habit of projecting God outside your own I AM, fearing the holiness that would confront you face-to-face. Yet the direct voice is not a threat but your own awareness awakening. When you interpret this moment through Neville's lens, you see that Moses represents a trusted inner channel—the part of you that translates God into terms you can bear. The fear that you might die at the sound of God is the stubborn belief in separation, the old identity clinging to safety through a surrogate. The remedy is to assume the position of the hearer: turn your attention inward and declare, 'I am listening to God within me now.' As you maintain this inner posture, the boundary dissolves; God's voice becomes your I AM speaking through the quiet, immediate Presence that you already are. In that moment, mediation falls away not by force but by the realization that you and God are one consciousness.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: Assume the state 'I hear God within me now' and let the fear dissolve as you align with I AM. Revise the notion of a distant deity by practicing this inner hearing until you feel the direct presence as your own awareness.
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