The I Am: First and Last
Isaiah 41:4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Isaiah 41 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse asserts that God alone created and orders generations; He is the beginning and the end, the eternal I AM.
Neville's Inner Vision
Only one actor appears in the theater of your world: the I AM, the consciousness that calls forth every generation from the dawn of time. When Isaiah asks, 'Who hath wrought and done it?' the answer is not external history but the inward act of awareness that names itself first and last. You are that I AM imagining a life and calling forth its sequence of events. The past is only a memory inside your attention; the future is the next scene you presently imagine. If you awaken to this single sovereign I AM, you remove distance between cause and effect: you discover that the world you walk through is a dream of your own consciousness, being lived by your bold assumption now. The 'first' and the 'last' are not two apart beings but the same timeless you: the ever-present state that begins and ends all events. Rest in the felt sense that you are the origin and termination of all you experience, and watch what follows as a natural manifestation of that interior truth.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and repeat 'I am the first and the last' while sinking into the felt sense of timeless awareness. Let your inner I AM revise any sense of past or future into a single, living present that orders your world.
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