Pure Hands, Growing Stronger
Job 17:8-9 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 17 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The upright persevere and hold their way; the innocent rise against hypocrisy, and clean hands symbolize integrity that strengthens over time.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within this Job scene you read, you are not watching history but entering a state of consciousness. The upright are the steadfast thoughts I choose and hold, unmoved by appearances. The innocent stirring against the hypocrite is the waking of my inner self to the lie that I am flawed. When I decide to hold fast to the way of righteousness, the sense of clean hands becomes my lived condition through imagination. The law of assumption answers to inner consistency: I dwell in the finished state—purity, perseverance, strength—until the outer world bends to reflect that inner fact. The hypocrite I fear is the image of doubt and lack; I replace it with the I AM that knows itself as integrity. Thus the struggle is not with others but with inner contradiction; as I persist in the inner verdict, I become the one who grows stronger, moment by moment, and the world confirms what I have already assumed.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly for 5–10 minutes, declare 'I am upright' and 'my hands are clean,' then imagine holding a steady path regardless of appearances.
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