Inner Mourning, Inner Restoration
Jeremiah 9:17-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jeremiah 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jeremiah 9:17-18 calls for mourners to lament, signaling a shift in the people’s heart; the passage points to an inner work of turning toward awareness rather than clinging to pain.
Neville's Inner Vision
I hear the call from Jeremiah as a call to awaken a new state of consciousness. The mourning women and the cunning women are not accidentals but inner faculties—imagination, awareness, feeling—designing the climate of my mind. When I answer, I invite the I AM to reign as ruler of my inner weather: the wailing becomes a symbolic release of resistance, the tears a letting go of identifications that no longer serve. In Neville’s terms, the sorrow I observe is not outside but a signal of a belief needing revision. I imagine the cry and then assume the feeling of its fulfilled result: I am already whole, I am already free, and the outward story must adjust to the inner reality I persist in imagining. The call to action—to hurry the wailing—teaches me to move swiftly from stagnant thought to the dynamic present, where turning leads to restoration. By consenting to this inner procession, I prove that the I AM can rewrite my circumstances as I dwell in awareness of what is true.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and claim you are the mourning woman within, then feel the release as you declare I am the I AM and allow the tears to wash away a limiting belief, rewriting your external scene.
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