Exodus 5:3 Inner Desert Sacrifice
Exodus 5:3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
They declare that the God of the Hebrews has met with them and ask to travel three days into the desert to sacrifice to the LORD their God.
Neville's Inner Vision
To the inner companion in you, this verse marks a moment when consciousness itself speaks: the God of the Hebrews is the I AM that meets you in the quiet of awareness. The three days' journey into the desert is not a trek across sand but a deliberate withdrawal from the talking mind—an inner expedition to a desert of stillness where the ordinary worship is set aside and true devotion is re-aligned with presence. Sacrificing unto the LORD your God means surrendering old habits of fear, control, and self-doubt to the one God within, letting your attention be consumed by the light of awareness rather than by appearances. The fear of pestilence or the sword is the ego clinging to safety; when you acknowledge the I AM as your only reality, those threats lose their grip and you are kept by the unshakable presence. The command invites you to begin in imagination, to assume that you are already in union with your inner God, and to let that assumed state become your experienced world.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume you are already in union with your inner God. Feel the I AM as a present, unshakable presence and revise fear into trust.
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