Ezra's Inner Turn

Neville's Inner Vision

Ezra 9:14-15 asks a people to look within and face the fear that they have broken the commandments and thus deserve wrath. In the Neville Goddard style, the 'God of Israel' is not a distant judge but the I AM—the conscious awareness in which all events arise. The cry, 'shall we again break thy commandments...?' is a recognition of a mind stuck in separation, a state of consciousness that fears being consumed by its own thoughts. When Ezra says 'thou art righteous' and that they are 'before thee in our trespasses,' he names the inner scene: you cannot stand before the divine when you identify with guilt; yet you survive as an escaped remnant, proof that awareness remains intact. The healing comes not from external reform alone but from a revision of the inner condition: assume you are already safe, already aligned with the divine law, and let that assumption displace fear and guilt. Then obedience becomes the natural alignment of your thoughts with your I AM, and repentance is turning the mind toward that inner state rather than away from it.