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

Read Galatians 5 in context

Scripture Focus

3For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

4Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Galatians 5:3-4

Biblical Context

Paul says relying on circumcision or the entire law makes you a debtor to the law, and being justified by the law cuts you off from grace.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your Galatians 5:3-4 reveals the inner leverage of the mind: whenever you identify with a system of law as the source of righteousness, you place yourself under obligation, and Christ’s vitality seems to withdraw. The law is not an external code but a state of consciousness you imagine as binding; to be circumcised in spirit is to cut off from the awareness of your I AM and to pretend you earn approval by acts. When you stand in the assumption that you are justified by your own deeds, you render grace inert, for grace is the spontaneous flow of life when you cease resisting the one power within you. The moment you accept that you are already complete in God, you dissolve the debtor relationship and allow the living Christ within to operate. Your task is not to obey more rules but to awaken the awareness that the law has no claim over your mind; in that awakening, grace becomes your natural condition.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume you are already justified by grace, not by the law. Revise any sense of debt and feel the grace flowing in you as your natural state.