Neville Goddard on Jonah 1:9-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 1 in context

Scripture Focus

9And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

10Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.

Jonah 1:9-10

Biblical Context

Jonah identifies as Hebrew and expresses reverent fear of the LORD, the Creator who made sea and land; the sailors react with fear when they realize he had fled from the LORD’s presence.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jonah’s spoken self-identification is a revelation of his inner state. In Neville’s terms, the 'Hebrew' is a consciousness aligned with the order of God, and the fear of the LORD is reverence for the I AM within. The statement that the LORD made the sea and the dry land points to an inner geography: the sea is the flux of thought; the land is the fixed principle of awareness. When he tells the sailors he fled from the presence of the LORD, that inner motion is exposed as a belief in separation from God. The sailors' fear mirrors their sensing of a disturbance in his inner weather. The remedy is not escape but revision: acknowledge that the presence of the LORD is not distant but within, the I AM that orders sea and shore. When you claim the I AM as your own, fear dissolves, the storm quiets, and your outer world rearranges to reflect your inner alignment with divine presence.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM now: sit, close your eyes, and declare, 'I am the I AM, present within me'; then feel the inner sea settle and the land of awareness firm beneath you.