Inner Statutes Reimagined
Ezekiel 20:25-26 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ezekiel 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Verse 20:25–26 speaks of God giving statutes that were not good and judgments that would not sustain life, culminating in desolation so the people might know the LORD.
Neville's Inner Vision
To the awakened I AM, Ezekiel’s scene is not a distant historical judgment but a map of your inner states. The 'statutes that were not good' are the faulty laws you have accepted about yourself—habitual beliefs, fears, and rituals that govern your inner life yet fail to nourish it. The 'judgments whereby they should not live' are the verdicts you’ve allowed to rule your days, keeping your awareness tethered to limitation. The 'gifts' polluted in their own offerings are the consolations you grant your ego, gifts that sacrifice life to comfort. The fire that all that openeth the womb must pass through is the cleansing fire of inner refinement: as old desires and identities burn away, desolation falls away too, revealing the LORD within—the I AM that you truly are. The purpose is not punishment but awakening; when you stop insisting the old statutes govern you, you discover that the desolation prepares you to know the Lord as your present consciousness, not a distant deity. Your inner governor reclaims sovereignty, and new, good statutes arise from the awareness you now claim as real.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, assume I AM as your only governor, and revise a stubborn belief as: 'These old statutes are replaced by good ones that bless my life.' Then feel it real and dwell in the sensation of that revised state.
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