Inner Creation and Renewal
Jeremiah 4:23-24 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah 4:23-24 depicts a form-less earth, dark heavens, and trembling mountains, symbolizing primordial inner disorder that calls for inner formation. It points to the mind's need to order itself to produce a stable outer reality.
Neville's Inner Vision
Jeremiah 4:23-24 presents the earth as void, the heavens without light, and mountains that tremble—an image of consciousness before it yields to form. This is not punishment but a mirror: the inner world can be unnerving when it has not yet decided what is real. In the Neville view, I am the I AM behind the imagery, and imagination is the instrument by which I reorder it. When I observe the void and the dark sky, I do not protest the chaos; I assume a more stable image and dwell there until light returns. The trembling mountains symbolize habit and fixed belief that loosen when I persist in a new mental pattern; the hills that move lightly point to gentler, incremental shifts, not destruction. The absence of light signals a moment to decree brightness by an act of will in consciousness. By choosing a state of order—an inner image that has already formed—I feel it, name it, and let it be real in me first. As I remain faithful to that inner order, the outer scene follows, reflecting the inner alignment of I AM with form.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes, and assume I AM is ordering this world. Revise the inner scene to one of form and light, and feel that state as already real.
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