Face or Back: Inner Scattering
Jeremiah 18:17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 18 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse depicts God scattering the people before their enemies and turning them away, showing only the back rather than the face in calamity. In plain terms, it signals an upheaval that exposes current patterns so a new inner state can be chosen.
Neville's Inner Vision
In the inner sight, Jeremiah’s image is a turning of consciousness rather than a judgment on beings. The 'east wind' symbolizes a swift shift of states, where the old self is scattered so that the true I AM can be seen at the center. The ‘back’ is not rejection but space—space in which you stop clinging to outward appearances and begin to use imagination to shape inward conditions. The calamity is the invitation to revise your state: fear, doubt, and old images are dislodged so you may finally align with the end you desire. When you dwell in the awareness that you are the I AM, the exterior scene must bend to your inner conviction. Your power lies not in resisting scattering but in turning it into a deliberate reconstruction of self through assumption and feeling. The moment you accept that your inner reality creates the outer, you will witness a new face of life appearing where there was once only back.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the end you seek as already true; feel the I AM surrounding you and revise fear into confidence, letting the inner face of wholeness reveal itself in your next moment.
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