Imagination and Obedience Within
Jeremiah 7:24-26 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 7 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah shows a people who refuse to listen to the prophets, clinging to the imaginations of their own hearts. They move backward, not forward, because they will not hear the inner counsel that would lead them into renewal.
Neville's Inner Vision
Seekers, the scene is not a distant rebellion but a state of consciousness. 'They hearkened not' signals an inner refusal to listen to the I AM; 'the counsel and the imagination of their evil heart' reveals a habitual thought-form that imagines separation and limitation. The prophets are your inner messengers, the recurring insights that awaken you to your true nature. When you read 'they went backward, and not forward,' you glimpse how clinging to the past and to fearful imaginations retards your forward movement in life. The 'day ... Egypt' marks a long history of thinking guidance comes from outside; yet in my language all guidance springs from the inner I AM. You can shift by assuming a new state: you are the one who has heard, who obeys, who moves forward. The emotional habit patterns become the 'old generation' you replace with a renewed covenant of obedience to your inner truth. By returning to the inner prophets—still, quiet, loving impulses—you align your outer life with forward movement, and the imagined judge within dissolves into support.
Practice This Now
Assume the state 'I hear the inner prophet and move forward now.' Then revise any sense of resistance by feeling, I am in covenant with my I AM, and imagined backwardness dissolves into forward, peaceful motion.
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