When The Master Calls Within

John 11:28-31 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read John 11 in context

Scripture Focus

28And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.
29As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.
30Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.
31The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
John 11:28-31

Biblical Context

Mary rises at Martha's report that the Master has come and is calling for her; she goes quickly to meet Him, while bystanders misread her haste as a grave-side vigil.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the seeker, John 11:28–31 is the moment when the Master calls and a sister of your being rises. The Master is not a distant guest, but the I AM that lives as your awareness, the consciousness that asks you to step into your true meeting. Martha speaks the summons; Mary responds with haste, not merely from sorrow but from the knowing that presence has entered the room. The company in the house—comforters and bystanders—represents the world of appearances, the thoughts and beliefs that would keep you in the tomb of limitation. Yet an inner movement has begun: you accept the call, turn away from the grave of doubt, and move toward the light of the inner Christ. The stone is rolled away when you acknowledge that the Master is come and call you by name. Your faith is not a passive waiting but a living inner alignment that invites the outer to reflect the inner truth. When you live from that inner acceptance, situations rearrange, and the imagined distance between you and the Master dissolves into immediate presence.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and declare, 'The Master is come; I am the I AM,' and imagine Mary rising to meet Him. Spend a few minutes feeling that you are already in His presence, and revise any doubt by affirming that you have always been attended by the I AM.

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