Inner Fire Devours Doubt

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville Goddard's approach, this verse is not punishment but a map of inner turning. Your current state of consciousness—your self-image, habitual thoughts, and spoken assumptions—breathes life into whatever you call real. The chaff and stubble symbolize the false beliefs and worn-out habits you treat as truth. The fire of your breath represents the disciplined imagination aroused by feeling. If you cling to fear, lack, or judgment, that fire consumes those forms and you experience their collapse as outer judgment. Yet you can invert the scene by choosing a new state: awaken the I AM within, and dwell in the feeling of the wish fulfilled, here and now. In that inner posture, your breath becomes a purposeful fire that clears away the old, silence the old verdicts, and makes room for new, true forms—righteousness, justice, and faithful sight. The passage asks you to observe your inner weather and revise it until your life expresses your renewed consciousness.