Neville Goddard on Galatians 5:22-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Galatians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

Biblical Context

Galatians 5:22-23 lists nine fruits that emerge as the Spirit's work: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, and self-control, expressed as a life aligned with Spirit rather than legalistic rules.

Neville's Inner Vision

Whenever you dwell in the I AM and refuse to split yourself from God, the nine fruits unfold as your native states of consciousness. Love is the magnetic center of awareness; joy bubbles when you treat every situation as if it were already blessed; peace settles in when you stop resisting what your mind has once named as problem. Longsuffering or patience arises when you acknowledge that every form of time is a product of imagination, and you choose to endure from a place of unwavering serenity. Gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance follow as automatic harmonies of the inner life, once you accept that there is no external law superseding your inner state. For God, the I AM, is not out there sanctioning virtue; God is the awareness in which you exist. The fruits are not earned; they are revealed as you consciously assume the state that you wish to live.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: In a quiet moment, assume the state of these fruits as already true; gently repeat, 'I am love, I am joy, I am peace' until it feels real. Let the feeling of the I AM wash through you and rewrite any old resistance as a memory.