Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 4:21-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 4 in context

Scripture Focus

21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 4:21-22

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 4:21-22 sounds an urgent inner alarm about spiritual blindness. The people are ignorant of God, wise to evil but lacking true knowledge of good.

Neville's Inner Vision

That trumpet and standard are not future omens but your present state of awareness. Jeremiah sees the people as 'foolish' because they do not know Me, meaning they have forgotten the I AM within; they are 'wise to do evil' because their thoughts race in patterns of separation and fear, while they have no knowledge of the good that flows from the Presence. The alarm is God calling you back to the awareness that you are the I AM, the one who perceives and creates. When you take this to heart, the so-called outside world becomes a mirroring of your internal condition. Your job is not to change the world first, but to change your inner state; to revise the belief that you are lacking, and to assume that you are already in possession of the knowledge of God. Feel the truth as if it were real now: you know God, you live from God, you act from the Presence within. The moment you dwell in that consciousness, the outer trumpet quiets, and the nation is transformed by your internal realization.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the Presence within as your real state. Revise the belief 'I am ignorant of God' to 'I know God now' and feel that Knowing as real.