Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 20:15-16 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 20 in context

Scripture Focus

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;

Jeremiah 20:15-16

Biblical Context

Jeremiah curses the messenger who brings glad tidings of a birth, signaling that outward joy without inner repentance can ruin the city within. The inner reading invites you to birth the real in consciousness, not rely on external news.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah's curse is not a condemnation of a man but a warning to your inner life: beware the doorway through which a favorable tidings enters as if it validates your self-image. The messenger who says a child is born represents an assumption in your waking dream that makes you glad on the basis of outer news. If you cling to that outer news and neglect repentance, your inner city will be overthrown by a mind that has not awakened to its God-given birth. The danger is to rejoice in a birth only as a worldly concept, rather than as a lived state of consciousness. The remedy is to ground your joy in I AM, the awareness that births come from inner conviction, not external confirmation. When you refuse to let outward tidings dictate your worth, the inner city rises in truth: the birth you seek already lives in you, waiting for your honoring of it.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and assume the state of birth now. Silently say I am the birth of a new self, and feel that truth fully in your chest, as if your entire inner city is being rebuilt from within.