Roots Dried, Branch Cut
Job 18:16 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 18 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse depicts the inner ground drying up and outward life being cut off. It signals upheaval as a symbolic invitation to turn within and revise your state of consciousness.
Neville's Inner Vision
Job 18:16 speaks not of a mere punishment but of a state of consciousness. When you believe your ground is nourished by perception of lack, your roots dry in the soil of that belief and your outward life—the branch above—seems to be cut away by unseen hands. This is not catastrophe but a doorway: the old structure falls so a new sense of life may rise from within. The I AM within you remains unmoved; by imagining from that center you dissolve the image of limitation. The verse asks you to turn from the scene to the power that animates it: by feeling the truth of your oneness, you rewrite the conditions. Your reality follows your inner direction, and the apparent severing becomes a sign that you are shifting into a more real state of being.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Assume the I AM as the nourisher of your ground; revise the sense of lack and feel-it-real that your roots are thriving and your branch is regrowing from that inner soil.
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