Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 12:5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 12 in context

Scripture Focus

5If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

Jeremiah 12:5

Biblical Context

Plainly, the verse says that weariness from small trials exposes whether you can endure bigger ones. Enduring in a peaceful season forms the inner posture needed for the swelling Jordan.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah is teaching a spiritual law: outer weariness reveals an inner state. If you identify with the footman's fatigue, you will not yet contend with the horse; the Jordan swells only when your inner sense of possibility has grown too small for the journey. In Neville's language, you are the one who imagines your world into being; your trials simply reflect your current assumption about who you are. The land of peace is a state of awareness, not a place, and you wear it or discard it by what you feel to be true about yourself. The call is to revise from limitation to sufficiency, to awaken the I AM within and feel that you are already capable of the greater ride. When you entertain the sense of completion already on the other side of the Jordan, the external conditions shift to match that inner reality. The path is not fight the horses but be the I AM who has already conquered them.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe, and declare I AM the I AM; I have already conquered the Jordan. Rehearse the scene in your mind where you meet the horses with calm certainty until the feeling is real.