Inner Deliverance in Jeremiah
Jeremiah 37:17-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 37 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Zedekiah secretly asks Jeremiah for news from the LORD, and Jeremiah answers that the people will be delivered into Babylon's hands. He then questions what he has done to deserve imprisonment.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within your consciousness, Zedekiah represents the outward king—the controlling, fearful part of you that begs for a word from the Lord to confirm what it wants to hear. Jeremiah is the prophetic center within—the still, inner voice that bears witness to the truth of your life as it moves in the divine plan. The oracle that you will be delivered into the hand of Babylon is not a punishment from an angry external ruler, but a disclosure of your inner order: a release from denial and limitation into a larger law of life. Babylon symbolizes a great shifting of circumstance dictated by the LORD of your own I AM, not by chance. The prison is the mind's self-imposed confinement when you forget your true nature. When you ask, 'What have I offended?' you are really asking, 'What false identity am I clinging to?' Jeremiah's answer reveals you already possess the directive of life—the message is present, and your sense of limitation is dissolved by awareness. The practice is to align with the word within, surrender to the divine plan, and let your outer circumstances move in harmony with that inner fact.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the state: 'I am delivered into the hand of the LORD.' Feel the release as your inner king bows to the divine plan, and revise any sense of imprisonment by affirming, 'This trial serves my good and I am free in the I AM.'
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