Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 23:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 23 in context

Scripture Focus

3And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

4And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:3-4

Biblical Context

God promises to regather the dispersed flock and appoint feeding shepherds. The people will flourish without fear.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 23:3-4 speaks as a drama of inner states. The remnant is not a geography but the I AM at the center of consciousness that remains when every false self is loosened from power. The “countries whither I have driven them” are the scattered modes of thought you have entertained, the beliefs that have seemed separate from you. To gather them back into their folds is to awaken to unity, to choose one fold of awareness in which all things live. The shepherds are the inner faculties—perception, faith, compassion—set up within you by your own invocation of God as I AM. When they feed you, you are nourished by truth, steadied by love, and kept secure by that which never fails. Then fear fades, dismay dissolves, and lack disappears, for you are in the one kingdom where fruitfulness and increase are natural expressions of being. Restoration, in this light, is not a distant event but a present experience realized by assuming the state of mind that God is your awareness and that you are already well tended by your own inner guides.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, "I AM the shepherd over my entire flock." Then revise: "All dispersed aspects of my mind gather into one fold; I am fed, safe, and abundant by my inner shepherds."