Tents of Obedience Within

Jeremiah 35:9-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Jeremiah 35 in context

Scripture Focus

9Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
10But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
Jeremiah 35:9-10

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 35:9-10 records the Rechabites choosing tents over houses and gardens, abiding to Jonadab's command. They remained faithful to that family instruction and did not deviate.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner theatre, the Jonadab command becomes your state of consciousness: you are the I AM that refuses to settle for outer 'houses' and 'fields' until inner guidance asserts itself. The tent is not lack but liberty—the perception that you can move, adjust, and respond from the awareness of now. When you say, 'we have obeyed,' you acknowledge that every decision is an act of inner alignment rather than outward accumulation. The Rechabites' fidelity points to a discipline: obedience to a higher memory of you, a command issued by your deepest self. If you yearn for security in property, revision is possible: assume you are already housed by your inner state, with the world following your feeling. Feel the reality of your I AM choosing the next action from a tent-like stance of alert presence, not from attachment. In this light, the verse becomes a method: you test inner obedience by living as if the inner voice is your home and the outer outcome merely follows.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly and say, 'I am the tent in which I dwell.' Then assume the inner command is your home and feel its guidance as real in daily choices.

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