Neville Goddard on Joshua 23:11-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 23 in context

Scripture Focus

11Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

12Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

13Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

Joshua 23:11-13

Biblical Context

The text tells you to stay faithful to the LORD and not join with the remnants of other peoples. If you turn back, these remnants become snares that will trouble your life.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice that the 'land' is your field of consciousness, and the 'nations' are old, unused states of mind. To love the LORD is to align your entire being with the I AM, the living awareness that you are. The warning about marrying with the remnant is not about race or geography but about the mind's habit of mixing a higher state with a lower one. When you entertain thoughts of fear, doubt, or carnal appetite alongside faith, you are making alliances with forces that cannot be driven out; they remain as snares and cause thorns in your eyes until you perish from the good land of your life. The remedy is not effort, but a return to the one command: keep love for the LORD fixed as the central state of consciousness. When you feel drawn to old patterns, revise by affirming, 'I am one with God; nothing else has power over me.' In that inward covenant, the outer world must reflect harmony and victory.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and repeat: 'I love the LORD my God' until that devotion fills your consciousness, then imagine old patterns dissolving like mist as the inner covenant holds.