Inner Sacrifice of Job 1:5
Job 1:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Job sends for his family, sanctifies them, and at dawn offers burnt offerings for each of them, believing perhaps their hearts have sinned against God. He continues this practice continually.
Neville's Inner Vision
In this light, Job’s sacrifice is not an appeal to change God but a deliberate change of the inner state. Each morning he shifts attention from outward feasting to the steadfast presence of I AM, reaffirming harmony within. The 'sons' symbolize inner faculties—faith, hope, imagination—that may have drifted into stories of separation. When he says they may have sinned, he is naming a possible inner scenario and choosing to revise it by aligning with the truth of oneness. The continual offering reveals that reality responds to a persistent assumption rather than to fear; true worship arises when consciousness rests in unity with God. Thus the burn offering becomes a symbolic purification of belief, a conscious act of returning the entire inner world to its rightful alignment with divinity. In Neville’s terms, Job imagines the condition as already realized, and the outer world follows the inner proof of that state.
Practice This Now
In the morning, close your eyes and revise the inner scene by affirming I AM that I AM; imagine offering the burnt offering of faith to any part of you that doubts God's presence, until you feel inner alignment. Hold that feeling for a minute, then step into the day living as the state you revised.
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