Neville Goddard on Galatians 4:3-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Galatians 4 in context

Scripture Focus

3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

Galatians 4:3-5

Biblical Context

Paul speaks of our former bondage to worldly principles, then reveals the moment of true sonship that comes when consciousness awakens to its divine adoption.

Neville's Inner Vision

We are told that in our youth we lived under the 'elements of the world'—the old dictates of fear, lack, and petty rules. Yet the ‘fulness of the time’ signals a shift not in history but in awareness: the I AM within you sends forth the Son into your present mind, not as a distant savior but as your renewed self. The Son is the expression of divine life already resident in the body you inhabit, arising to redeem the thinking that remains bound to law and appearances. This redemption is not external conquest but an inner recognition: the adoption of sons is the realization that you are the rightful heir of God’s family, no longer a debtor to the world’s regulations. As you affirm this, the sense of bondage dissolves and you stand as the mature child of God, aligned with a single source. The old under-law sense yields to a living, conscious relationship with your true self, the Father’s own image shining through your form.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in quiet and assume the state of being the adopted son; repeat I AM the Son of God within me until you feel the inner shift as the old bondage falls away.