Inner Return From Wormwood

Jeremiah 9:15-16 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Jeremiah 9 in context

Scripture Focus

15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Jeremiah 9:15-16

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 9:15-16 warns of divine judgment expressed as bitter sustenance, scattering among nations, and a pursuing sword until the old order is consumed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah speaks of a people whom the Most High will feed with wormwood and give gall to drink—not as external famine, but as the inner weather of a state of consciousness that refuses to be whole. In Neville’s view, these images describe thoughts and feelings that darken awareness. Wormwood is the bitter taste of unresolved limitation; gall the poison of fear that keeps one from standing in the I AM. When you identify with a self in exile, you scatter your attention into heathen beliefs, and the sense of unity dissolves into separate fragments. The sword that follows is the mind’s decisive action—conscious discrimination that cuts away old identities and habits that no longer serve your true nature. To be consumed is not punishment but transformation: once the inner structures of limitation are removed, you are gathered again into the one Life that you truly are. The present moment becomes the arena where you revise the story, choose a new state of consciousness, and feel the reality of wholeness now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Assume the I AM is your only reality; when bitterness or exile thoughts arise, revise by declaring, 'I am gathered in the one Life now.' Feel that unity as a living sensation in the chest until it is real.

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