Obedience Inside: The Inner Nation
Jeremiah 12:17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 12 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah 12:17 warns that if the people do not obey, the LORD will utterly uproot and destroy that nation. This is a judgment tied to obedience; in Neville's reading, the 'nation' is a state of consciousness and 'destruction' signals the dissolution of a stale pattern when inner command is ignored.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within Jeremiah 12:17 the warning is not about a distant tribe but about your inner life. The nation is the current drift of thought and feeling, and the LORD is the I AM within you, the authority demanding obedience to the inner law. When that inner state refuses to obey, the old pattern is uprooted and destroyed, not as punishment from without but as the natural clearing of consciousness to make way for life. Destruction becomes renewal: the old selves that no longer serve your true desire are shed so the higher life can emerge. As you awaken to the I AM, you realize obedience is the creative act governing experience; align with the inner command and the old self dissolves, giving birth to a more alive reality. The verse invites a practical shift: identify with the inner law and revise any fear of doom by imagining the new state as already real, here and now.
Practice This Now
Assume now the truth that you are obedient to the I AM within you. Feel the inner law reorganizing your life and let the old pattern dissolve.
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