Spiritual Mercy for Inner Nineveh
Jonah 4:11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jonah 4 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jonah 4:11 presents God's mercy toward Nineveh and hints that turning toward awareness can spare even those who cannot discern. The inner interpretation sees Nineveh as internal dispositions, and salvation as awakening.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within Jonah’s desert city, recognize the I AM within you asking, Should not I spare this inner Nineveh? The great city is your interior state—thoughts and beliefs that cannot discern right from left. The sixscore thousand are the parts of you still ignorant, uncorrected, who wander without guidance; the cattle are your outward conditions tied to those states. God’s mercy to Nineveh becomes a mirror for your own readiness to awaken: mercy arises when you stop resisting awareness and choose to turn toward God within. The miracle is not a change of outer events, but a change of inner conviction—the inner state that makes every circumstance respond as mercy. Remember that you are the I AM, and imagination is the tool by which you live. When you imagine yourself as the one who forgives and reforms, you invite the inner spark of discernment to rise and direct your life. Thus salvation is an awakening, a reordering of your inner city so that love governs how you think, feel, and act.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and assume the inner state that God as I AM spares Nineveh; feel the mercy moving through you. Then revise a stubborn thought by declaring, 'I am the mercy of God in action; I discern and choose love.'
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