Return and Submit: Inner Alignment
Genesis 16:9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 16 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Plainly, Genesis 16:9 presents a divine messenger directing Hagar to return to her mistress and submit to her care. It frames obedience and humility within a challenging situation, inviting trust in a larger, orderly movement of life.
Neville's Inner Vision
To the Neville reader, the 'angel of the LORD' is not a distant envoy but the I AM within your own consciousness. 'Return to thy mistress' means turn your attention back to the present situation you may have resisted, and 'submit thyself under her hands' marks a surrender to the current arrangement as the mechanism through which life’s purpose works through you. Submission here is not surrender to a person but alignment with the inner order your imagination reveres as divine Providence. When you yield, you stop resisting the scene and allow the cause—your true self—to express through the effect. Your faith grows not by fleeing trial but by consenting to it as the path of your good, for the outer is the doorway through which your inner image becomes real. Accept this inner command and reframe the event as a mirror of your own choice, proving you are not a victim but its master. Practice the posture of obedience, knowing the inner Word is always directing you toward your higher harmony.
Practice This Now
Impose the definite feeling that you have already returned and submitted to the divine order; when you stand in this imagined state, the outer scene begins to harmonize with your eternal I AM.
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