Dwelling in Tents: Inner Security
Jeremiah 35:7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 35 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah 35:7 describes a season of exile: no building, sowing, or planting—only living in tents for many days in a land of strangers. It points to endurance under temporary conditions, not permanent possession.
Neville's Inner Vision
Jeremiah 35:7 asks no less than a shift of atmosphere. The people are told to live in tents, not in houses built with brick and seed, a symbolic exile that reveals how reality is formed: from the I AM, not from tillable fields. In this Neville reading, the outward signs—buildings, sowing, vineyards—are symbolic indicators of attachment. When you interpret exile as a state of consciousness, you can hear the invitation to become a nomad of inner awareness: to move through time without clinging to permanence, to trust that security flows from your awareness rather than the external landscape. The tent becomes a home of perception, a flexible awareness that can endure in any land. Your true dwelling is the awareness that I AM—that life is one continuous present underpinned by consciousness, not by walls. As you revise and feel it real, you are already standing in the land of your imagined abundance, even while the outer scene remains unchanged. Endurance becomes not a burden but a practice of faith that you can carry anywhere.
Practice This Now
Assume the feeling of tent-dwelling now, knowing your security is I AM, not buildings or fields. When a sense of lack arises, revise it with, 'I am sustained by the I AM; I choose this inner exile as a stepping stone to the promised land within.'
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