Knowing God Within: Liberty Now
Galatians 4:9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Galatians 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Galatians 4:9 asks why one returns to the weak, beggarly elements after knowing God, highlighting a shift from external law to inner awareness as the path to liberty.
Neville's Inner Vision
To the awakened mind, God is the I AM you are, not a distant judge but the very atmosphere of your awareness. 'Knowing God' is not a prize to win but a state you presently inhabit; you are known of God—recognized by the infinite, and therefore inseparable from it. The 'weak and beggarly elements' are simply old mental residues—the law, fear, and external expectations that pretend you are separate from your source. When you utter, 'now that I know God or am known of God,' you lift yourself above the need to perform, to earn grace, to seek approval from without. You are free because your identity is cast in the image of the I AM. The method remains: imagine from that state, feel it as real, and let the feeling of being known dissolve the bondage of limitation. The inner certainty reforms your world; people, events, even the body respond to the new regimen of consciousness. You do not fight the law—you retire from it by becoming the very awareness that it cannot touch.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and repeat, 'I am known of God' as a fact of your being; then imagine the old rules dissolving like mist around you.
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