Awakening Through Inner Birth Pains
Isaiah 26:17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 26 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Isaiah 26:17 uses the image of a woman in labor to express Israel's suffering as they draw near deliverance. It affirms God's attentive presence in their trials and the assured hope of release.
Neville's Inner Vision
Your inner world is the womb where this vision is formed. When you feel pain here, it is not punishment but the surge of a new state forming within your consciousness. The LORD you cry to is the I AM you, the awareness that can imagine and thus create. See the pangs as contractions of the old you, loosening their grip to yield a fresh reality. The birth is not somewhere outside of you; it is the turning of your mind toward the end you desire and the belief that it is already true. If you maintain a faithful assumption—'I am delivered now'—and color it with the feeling of reality, the sensation of waiting dissolves. Imagination, not circumstance, writes the science of your life. Trust the inner process, and the child you seek to bring forth will emerge into your world as your next sensation, your next choice, your next experience. The trial becomes the sign that you are near.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and affirm, 'I am delivered now,' and feel that relief as if the future has already arrived. Hold that sensation for a few breaths until your inner state shifts.
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