Neville Goddard on Galatians 6:3-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Galatians 6 in context

Scripture Focus

3For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

4But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

5For every man shall bear his own burden.

Galatians 6:3-5

Biblical Context

Galatians 6:3-5 warns that thinking oneself to be something when one is nothing is self-deception. It calls each person to prove their own work and bear their own burden.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your verse speaks not to a distant judge, but to a state of consciousness. If you imagine yourself as something when you are nothing, you are deceiving the I AM within, mistaking personality for reality. Pride closes the door to power because it refuses to prove itself in the silence of consciousness. The command to prove each one’s own work invites you to test the quality of your inner acts, not to boast before others but to rejoice in the quiet alignment you discover within. Each man bears his own burden in the sense that you must own the results of your psychic discipline—the thoughts, feelings, and choices that shape your world. When you drop the pretense of superiority and accept your true size in the light of I AM, you release the urge to compare and you begin to lessen the weight you carry. The moment you stop center-stage thinking you are something, you discover you are everything in the rightness of consciousness, and your world follows the truth you hold.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the state 'I am the I AM' now, and revise the sense of self from pride to humble awareness. Feel it real by quietly repeating, 'I bear my own burden in the light of consciousness,' until that truth settles as your immediate experience.