Innocence and Inner Justice
Job 4:7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Job asks who has ever perished innocent and where the righteous are cut off, challenging the belief that external events prove virtue or punishment. The verse invites us to consider where true justice resides, beyond appearances.
Neville's Inner Vision
Remember Job 4:7 as a doorway into your own consciousness. The question about innocence and the fate of the righteous is not a historical report but a mirror for your inner state. Innocence is not a credential earned by outward conduct; it is the I AM, your ongoing sense of being, expressing as life. The terms 'innocent' and 'righteous' become movements within consciousness, states you can shift by attention and belief. When you feel afflicted, you are witnessing a belief about yourself clashing with your true self—the unchanging I AM. By assuming the feeling of the truth you desire, you revise the inner picture until it resonates as real. Then the outer scene realigns to reflect that inner justice, and what seemed like punishment reveals itself as a correction of belief. Your life becomes a demonstration that justice is not administered from without, but awakened from within by your conscious state of being.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and affirm, 'I am the I AM; innocence is my natural state.' Feel the truth as you, not as a thought, and softly revise any troubling scene by embracing inner justice until it feels real.
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