Noah's Inner Covenant Practice
Genesis 8:20-22 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 8 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Noah builds an altar and offers burnt offerings; God smells the offering and vows not to curse the ground again. The cycles of seedtime and harvest, day and night, endure.
Neville's Inner Vision
Notice that this scene speaks not merely of external ritual but of a turning of the heart. The altar represents a state of consciousness you enter as the I AM, offering beliefs to be refined by divine presence. When the Lord 'smells a sweet savour,' it is the felt acceptance of your revised self by the inner God within you. The line about 'the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth' reveals the habitual trance of limitation you must dissolve—not by denial, but by a new, vibrant imagining. If you persist in assuming a merciful, renewed life, the earth ceases to be cursed in your inner weather; your acts, like seedtime and harvest, align with the law of your new conviction. The seasons remaining symbolize the constancy of the inner rhythm once you live from a higher state. In Neville's terms, creation is an ongoing act of awareness shaped by what you entertain. Let your imagination be the incense that grounds your new covenant and invites renewal into every aspect of living.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and build an inner altar. Offer a current limiting belief as a burnt offering and, in feeling, accept it as already true; then repeat, 'The ground of my life is blessed, and the seasons reflect my renewed inner state.'
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