Inner Growth in the Sun
Job 8:16-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Job 8 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse portrays a flourishing state "green before the sun" with roots tied to the ground; if uprooted from its place, it denies having seen you. It speaks to how growth remains rooted in internal conditions and can be severed by losing its grounding.
Neville's Inner Vision
Behold Job 8:16-18 as a mirror of your inner state. The 'green before the sun' is the growth of consciousness when honored by the I AM. The garden is your mind where thoughts push up as branches; the roots wrapped about the heap and stones are the beliefs you have allowed to entangle your results. When you destroy him from his place you are saying you cannot see the growth you are; yet this 'seeing' is only the external memory of a state you have not maintained. Now listen: you can revise by returning to the assumption that you are the garden, the sun, and the rooted life; affirm that you have always stood in the light of I AM, and feel the reality of your development as already complete. When you hold to that, the memory of denial dissolves and the green shoots return with new vigor.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the state 'I am green before the sun' and feel the sun of awareness warming your mind. Stay with the feeling until it floods every root; then revise: 'I have always stood in this sun; I am never uprooted.'
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