Resting the Burdens Within
Exodus 5:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Exodus 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Pharaoh commands that the people remain under their burdens; he resists their rest. Moses and Aaron represent the inner voices calling for a shift toward rest.
Neville's Inner Vision
Pharaoh is the outer mind clinging to burdens as reality. Moses and Aaron are the inner voices of awareness and action calling you to rest in Being. When Pharaoh says the people are many he points to the density of beliefs that the burden is the natural order. But you know better: rest is not escape but the acknowledgment that the I AM within is the source of all movement. To let the people rest from their burdens is to refuse identification with struggling thoughts; it is the decision that the many thoughts of lack are not governing you. As you entertain the idea I am free now you revise the scene; the apparent burdens quiet and rearrange themselves into a harmonious expression of life. The deliverance promised is not a future event but a present state of awareness your awareness that you have already awakened from the belief that work is the sole law. In this manner the Exodus is your mental shift from bondage to rest from fear to faith from the noise of the world to the quiet sovereignty of I AM.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly and imagine the inner voices declaring rest. Feel the relief as the sense of burden dissolves into your present I AM.
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