Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 11:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 11 in context

Scripture Focus

7For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

8Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart: therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do: but they did them not.

Jeremiah 11:7-8

Biblical Context

God calls for obedience, but the people ignore the voice and follow the imagination of their hearts; accordingly, the covenant's words rise in their experience as a result of that disobedience.

Neville's Inner Vision

View the scene as a teaching about your inner state. The 'I am protesting' is the I AM seeking alignment within you; the 'fathers' and the day of Egypt symbolize older, unhealed states you carry. When the voice says 'Obey my voice,' it asks you to yield to the orderly, quiet command of your own consciousness. Yet you turn away, trusting the imagined movement of your heart—the imagination of your evil heart—which keeps you bound to fear and limitation. In this inner world, you fashion the terms of your life, and the covenant’s words appear because of your own imagined reality, even when you did not practice obedience. The healing is to reverse the act: decide here and now to obey the inner voice, and treat the covenant as an ever-present inner law. As you dwell in that obedience, your outer life naturally reorganizes to reflect it, and the words of the covenant manifest as the true fruit of your state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and declare, 'I am obedient to the I AM within me.' Then, vividly imagine your days moving in harmony with that voice until obedience becomes your default state.