Ezra 10:10 Inner Covenant
Ezra 10:10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Ezra 10 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Ezra the priest stood up to rebuke the people, saying they have transgressed by taking strange wives and thereby increasing the trespass of Israel. The verse frames this act as a breach of covenant and an inner accumulation of misalignment.
Neville's Inner Vision
Ezra's stand is the I AM within you rising to call a halt to misalignment. The 'strange wives' are not mere partners of marriage, but thoughts, desires, and identities that do not spring from your true divine nature. When you entertain them, you increase the trespass—friction within your own consciousness between what is holy and what you have entertained as real. Israel represents the inner kingdom you govern; obedience to the inner law is your loyalty to the I AM. Ezra's rebuke is not punishment but a reorientation: a decision to cease feeding alien loyalties and to realign with the covenant that you are one with God in consciousness. The moment you stand in that awareness and refuse to let foreign attachments rule you, the inner country is restored: a peace that passes mere outward obedience, because it comes from within. Your task is to revise the state you occupy by assuming the feeling that the I AM governs every thought, choice, and relation. Do this, and the trespass fades as you re-enter the unity of your true self.
Practice This Now
In a quiet moment now, sit with your eyes closed and declare: I am the I AM; I choose thoughts and companions that align with my inner covenant. Feel the alignment as real, releasing any foreign belief that does not serve this oneness.
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