Inner Presence Beyond Search
Job 23:8 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Job says he cannot find God by moving forward or backward; the sense of God’s absence arises from an outward search. The passage invites turning inward to the I AM, the aware presence that already is.
Neville's Inner Vision
What Job calls absence is a mirror of the mind’s outward chase. God is not a distant person to be tracked; He is the I AM—your own awareness, the perceiver behind every thought. When you go forward in pursuit of Him, you are still moving within the realm of appearances, and He remains unseen because you’re looking outside of the self. When you go backward, hoping to recover a previous state, the same rule applies: presence cannot be found by distance. The shift is to realize that the presence you seek is the very consciousness that witnesses your seeking. Imagination is the instrument by which He becomes real; to revise lack into presence, assume the feeling that I AM is here, now, and always. With that inner fact, the perceived absence loosens its grip, and the world around you begins to reflect the living awareness you already are.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly and declare, 'I AM that I AM, the presence within me now.' Then, assume the feeling of already having what you seek, letting inner awareness replace outer searching as you move through your day.
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