Brick Quotas and Inner Freedom

Exodus 5:8-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Exodus 5 in context

Scripture Focus

8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Exodus 5:8-9

Biblical Context

Pharaoh's taskmasters insist on the old brick quota, accusing the people of idleness as they cry out to their God. They then command even harder labor, telling the men to pay no heed to vain words.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the desert of your mind, the tale of bricks is a story you tell about your own states of consciousness. The quota represents a fixed belief about lack, about what you must produce to be worthy or accepted. The cry to go and sacrifice to your God is the moment you momentarily realize there is a larger I AM awareness within, a call to worship not of idle words but of reality faith. The decree 'let more work be laid upon the men' is the inner impulse to prove yourself through effort, to yield to external measures, to measure your value by the labor you perform. Yet the wording also carries a countercurrent: within you, God is the I AM, the consciousness that cannot be diminished. The instruction to ignore vain words invites you to revise the story with a present-tense assumption of freedom. When you accept that you are not defined by quotas but by the inner state from which you speak and act, the outer signs of bondage fade, and the dream of labor becomes a dream of realized potential.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, and assume the state of freedom now; say, 'I AM free in this very moment,' and feel that assumption filling your body as a warm light. Then revise the script—see the quota dissolving into nourishment for your holy inner worship of the I AM.

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