Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 16:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 16 in context

Scripture Focus

5For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.

6Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

7Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

Jeremiah 16:5-7

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 16:5-7 forbids entering mourning or lamenting, declaring peace withdrawn. It portrays a time when conventional comforts and consolation are unavailable.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville Goddard's lens, the house of mourning is not a place you visit; it is a state of consciousness you have consented to inhabit. The LORD's removal of peace signals that your attention has identified with a story of separation from the I AM. The line that great and small shall die and that no one will be buried describes the dissolution of the old self when you stop feeding it with lament. There is no external ritual that can restore what you now believe is lost; the work is inward. By choosing to identify with the I AM— that spacious awareness that never departs—you transform death into a change of images within mind. If you linger in sorrow, you reinforce a belief that life is finite; revise that belief now by imagining the I AM sustaining all life, and feel peace flooding your being here and now. See the living as present in love, not as victims of circumstance, and you will discover mercy, compassion, and shalom arising from within as your new normal.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly, feel the heart, and declare: I am the I AM; I now release all mourning and rest in enduring peace. Then revise a memory of loss by imagining it dissolved into living presence here and now.