Inner Boughs, Inner Mercy
Isaiah 27:11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 27 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse describes a people lacking understanding, whose withered state leads to punishment-like outcomes and a withdrawal of mercy from the formed order.
Neville's Inner Vision
Viewed through the Neville lens, this is not a geographic judgment but a drama of consciousness. withered boughs symbolize a mind that has forgotten its own aliveness, convinced by appearances that it is cut off from vitality. When you identify with that state—‘a people of no understanding’—you experience a world in which mercy seems withheld by God, who is simply the I AM you are, formed by your belief. The maker and the mercy are not distant; they are your awareness responding to what you accept as real. The remedy is not argument with appearances but revision of the inner assumption. Declare the opposite: that you are guided by a discerning, understanding I AM, and that mercy is your natural inheritance because you are its living embodiment. Sit in that felt sense until it becomes habitual. Then the broken branches reflower and the fire can be the cleansing fire of release, bringing inner clarity and renewal.
Practice This Now
Sit with the verse, and revise the scene by declaring: I am the discerning I AM; mercy flows to me now. Feel that state as real until it lands as lived experience.
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