Walking in Inner Daylight
John 11:9-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read John 11 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
John 11:9-10 speaks of a day with twelve hours and a night without light. To walk in the day is to dwell in awareness and avoid stumbling; to walk in the night is to stumble because the inner light is absent.
Neville's Inner Vision
To me, the parable is a claim about states of consciousness. The twelve hours of the day are the rhythm of awareness I choose to inhabit. When I walk in the day, I am not seeking light; I am the light, seeing through the light that already resides in me, the light of this world—the presence I call God or I AM. The light is within, not outside; night is the belief that light is lacking. If I entertain that belief, I stumble, for there is no inner light in that thought. But I can revise it: I am the light, I see the light everywhere, and the day replaces night. My job is to hold that state, to affirm and feel it as real, and thereby transform perception. By dwelling in awareness, I align with the twelve-hour cadence of spiritual reality; as I become the light, the world brightens in accordance with my inner state.
Practice This Now
Assume you are walking in the day of your consciousness; revise any sense of night by affirming I am the light by which I see, and feel that inner light illuminating all you perceive.
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