Labor While It Is Day - Inner Light
John 9:4-5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read John 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jesus speaks of a window of opportunity to do the divine works, a day of active faith; night signals limitation. He also identifies himself as the light within the world, pointing to inner awareness as the guide of action.
Neville's Inner Vision
John 9:4-5 invites us to see the day as a continuous invitation of awareness to act in harmony with the divine plan. The phrase 'I must work the works of him that sent me' is not an external mandate but a declaration of inner activity: the I AM, your living consciousness, must perform the authorized acts within your imagination until they become your seen world. When Jesus says the night cometh when no man can work, he points to the collapse of old belief and the surrender of external means; in your mind, night is the state in which more effort is needed, not in the world of appearances but in the shifting of your inner stance. 'As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world' proclaims that your awareness is the light by which you discern and shape reality. To live this is to treat every moment as a lab where you assume and revise the state that already contains the fulfilled work.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume you have already completed the work in awareness. Feel the inner light guiding every thought and action as you stand in that fulfilled state.
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