Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 26:3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 26 in context

Scripture Focus

3If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

Jeremiah 26:3

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 26:3 says that if the people listen and turn away from their evil ways, God may relent from the evil He intends due to their deeds.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the outer event becomes a mirror of your inner state. 'They will hearken and turn' translates to turning your mind away from fixed, harmful patterns. When you imagine yourself as I AM, you recognize that the 'evil' is a thought-form you have consented to in consciousness. If you truly listen to the still, small voice of awareness and revise the stance you have taken toward a habit, the 'evil' you believed would come can be cancelled, because God—your divine self—cannot enact a doom while you stand in a new decree. The moment of repentance is not punishment but the readiness to inhabit a new state of being. Mercy follows your accepted turning; as you shift your inner disposition, the outer circumstance loosens and a new, kinder outcome appears. The key is to embody the post-turning state in feeling and imagination until it feels real in your chest and mind.

Practice This Now

Imaginatively, assume the new state now: I turn from this pattern, and the inner I AM refrains from the old harm. Feel it real in your chest and begin acting from the revised stance.