Savour of Inner Covenant
Genesis 8:21 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Genesis 8 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
God smells a sweet savour and vows mercy, saying He will not again curse the ground because of man. He also notes that the imagination of man's heart has been inclined to evil from youth.
Neville's Inner Vision
This passage invites you to interpret the inner atmosphere as the true ground of your life. The sweet savour is the moment when your I AM, your pure awareness, approves of the state you are imagining. The vow not to curse the ground again is a declaration that when you hold a merciful, non-condemning image, your outer world ceases to be governed by a doom-filled forecast. The line about the imagination of the heart being evil from youth is not a verdict on your essence but a description of habitual thought that leans toward fear. By shifting into the consciousness of the I AM—feeling it real, living from the assumed mercy—you alter the conditions your life enacts. The divine pledge is not external judgment but an invitation to refine your inner state until forgiveness, mercy, and blessing become your normal experience. Your world is the echo of your inner acts; choose again, with awareness, to imagine from a place of mercy and you will alter the course you are presently narrating.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the state: I am the mercy that spares this world. Feel it real; revise a troubling memory by affirming that the imagination of my heart can bless rather than condemn.
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