Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 20:14-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 20 in context

Scripture Focus

14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Biblical Context

Jeremiah laments the day of his birth and curses the tidings that made his father glad. He asks why life should be filled with labour and shame.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the quiet of your own consciousness, the lament becomes a doorway. The day of birth is not an event to suffer but a signal that you are awakening to a new state of awareness. Your I AM presence is the builder of the day; the curses are thoughts you have believed. By quietly assuming the feeling that the day of your birth was blessed, you reverse the inner weather: the morning cry and noonday shout are simply rhythm of thoughts you can rearrange. You are not dragged by fate but choosing the inner movements of imagination. If you imagine that the birth of your day has already produced joy, you begin to live from the end. The overthrown cities and the cries become symbolic of old conceptions dissolving, making room for a life defined by your present awareness—the true, unassailable you.

Practice This Now

Assume now that your birth day was blessed; feel the I AM presence filling the day with joy. Close your eyes, declare, 'I am the I AM, and this day is born into freedom through my awareness.'