Inner Sabbaths and Generous Rest

Exodus 23:11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Exodus 23 in context

Scripture Focus

11But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Exodus 23:11

Biblical Context

Exodus 23:11 commands a seventh-year rest for land and produce, so the poor may eat; what remains is fodder for the beasts; apply this rest and stewardship to vineyards and olive groves.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your consciousness is invited to a seventh year—a deliberate rest from grasping after results. The land rests not as a geographic fact only, but as a symbol: you suspend the anxious demand for more and allow 'the poor' in you, the neglected needs and possibilities, to eat. What is left grows into the beasts' fodder, meaning the appetites that once devoured you can be sustained by inner abundance without strain. When you treat your vineyard and your oliveyard in the same way, you discipline your faculties—your thoughts, habits, and desires—to abide in rest, distribution, and lawful stewardship. In this inner economy, giving to the inner poor creates a cycle of peace: your decision to rest becomes the very feed from which all your higher faculties thrive. The command invites you to honor cycles—rest, release, and mindful stewardship—as the sure path to a life where scarcity dissolves as you stop trying to grind the universe into your own will. Remember: you are not managing the land; you are awakening the I AM that creates it.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in stillness and revise any scarcity by assuming, 'I AM abundance, and this land rests in my mind.' Feel it real by imagining the seventh year of plenty feeding both the poor within and all faculties of the self.

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