Desert Work, Inner Provision
Job 24:5-6 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 24 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse portrays wild donkeys in a desert going about their work, and the wilderness providing food for them and their children, with a harvest occurring in the fields, implying provision follows natural labor and conditions.
Neville's Inner Vision
In the inner field of consciousness, these wild asses symbolize your untamed impulses, ever arising to secure what you fear to lose. They move at dawn, not for vanity but to feed a life that seeks assurance. The desert is not a barren place but the mind where imagination can take form. When you meet this movement with awareness and a steadfast I AM, the wilderness yields food for you and your children—the provisions you seek come forth from your own imagining. The phrase about reaping from the field and gathering the vintage of the wicked represents beliefs that wealth comes only through struggle or through others; the inner harvest flows from a state of definite, loving assumption that you are already supplied. Wealth, then, is not a distant possession but an inner state that expresses through your work and vocation. Do not see yourself as a victim of circumstance; see yourself as the author of your own inner state, which frees you to give and to receive as the I AM governs you.
Practice This Now
Imaginative_act: Close your eyes, picture the desert within your mind, and affirm, I AM the source of my supply; in this moment my needs are met. Then imagine your next day’s work flourishing as a natural harvest of that inner certainty.
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