I Am a Sojourner
Genesis 23:4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The speaker identifies himself as a stranger and sojourner among the people and asks for a burial place so he can bury his dead out of sight. The moment frames the need for a stable space within community to honor the past.
Neville's Inner Vision
In Neville's tongue, Genesis 23:4 is a map of consciousness. You are the stranger and the sojourner in your own mind, not fixed to a single scene but moving toward renewal. The request for a burial place is the willingness to lay to rest the old state and its dead memories, so the new state can be housed in your awareness. Possession is inner: you imagine you already dwell there, feeling the relief, the covenant of what you desire. When you hold the vision as present fact, outer life bends to the inward shift. Revise the sense of self from lack to faithful occupancy, and keep the feeling alive until the two worlds merge.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume you already possess the inner burial place; feel yourself dwelling there and softly declare, I own this inner place now and it is real.
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