Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 3:19-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 3 in context

Scripture Focus

19But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

20Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:19-20

Biblical Context

God laments Israel’s faithlessness and longs to set them in a good land and to be called the Father by their hearts. He compares their treachery to a wife who departs from her husband, signaling a breach in the divine relationship.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Jeremiah speaks of your inner state. The I AM, the one true Father within, desires to place you in a pleasant land of peace and abundant life—not as a possession of the world, but as the inner radiance of awareness. When you hear 'you shall call me my father,' take it as a playful invitation to identify with the Self that never leaves you. The 'house of Israel' is your faculties—mind, emotion, imagination—each moment flirting with appearances rather than abiding in the I AM. The warning, 'Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband,' is not about external history but about the habitual doubt that you have turned away from the living presence within you. Your own mind has treated the grace as distant, forgetting the covenant that you are one with God. In Neville's terms, trust that imagination creates reality: by assuming communion with the I AM now, you restore fidelity, redraw the mental land, and re-enter the true marriage between self and Spirit. Your inner kingdom awaits your faithful attention, here and now, within consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: In a quiet moment, revise your sense of separation by silently affirming, 'I am the I AM, and I call God my Father within me now.' Then see and feel a lush inner land of peace and abundance and let that fidelity become your present experience.