Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 6:16-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 6 in context

Scripture Focus

16Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

17Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

18Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

20To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

21Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.

Jeremiah 6:16-21

Biblical Context

God calls you to seek the old paths and walk in them to find rest for your soul. The people refuse, ignore the watchmen and trumpet, and their thoughts bear judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Jeremiah vision, you stand as the I AM at the crossroads of your own consciousness, invited to return to the old paths where the good way is found by turning inward. The watchmen are the inner guards of thought; the trumpet is the alertness of awareness calling you to attention. When you say, 'We will not walk therein,' you refuse the inner law and with it the rest your soul desires. Outward sacrifices without inner alignment are like prayers spoken without watched intent—empty, for your mind refuses to yield to the truth it professes. The Lord, in your inner field, lays stumbling blocks before you not as punishment but as signals that your outer life mirrors an unacknowledged state. Fearful thoughts and unguided desires become the very obstacles. Yet the teaching remains: align your consciousness with divine order, heed the inner call, and your world will respond with the calm of the old path you chose in imagination. You are the one who crafts that path by the belief you dwell on and the feeling you hold.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume you are already walking the old path; revise every contrary thought until you feel rest as your immediate fact. Then let your outward world reflect this inner alignment.