Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 17:21-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 17 in context

Scripture Focus

21Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

22Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

23But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

Jeremiah 17:21-23

Biblical Context

God commands that no burdens be carried on the Sabbath and that the day be kept holy. The people did not listen and remained resistant to instruction.

Neville's Inner Vision

Take heed to yourselves, not as a mere rule, but as a shift of your inner consciousness. The directive to bear no burden on the Sabbath invites you to suspend the perpetual doing of the mind and enter a rest that you are. In the inner gates of your perception, do not bring forward the burdens of yesterday, nor compel your hands to perform what your heart need not. The Sabbath is hallowing the day, by aligning with the I AM, the stillness that is your true state. The people's stiff neck, refusal to hear instruction, describes the habit of insisting on control. You may choose otherwise now: accept a revision of your state, and hear the inner voice that says, 'Let it go; you are already complete.' So the practice is to assume the I AM as your sole activity and to feel, right here and now, the burden dissipate. When you rest in this awareness, the external rules fade and the inner order is restored.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, settle into I AM, and silently declare, 'I am at rest in God now.' Then picture laying down one burden at the gates of perception, and feel it dissolve into the stillness.