Rescue With Reverent Fear
Jude 1:23 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Jude 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jude 1:23 urges rescuing others from danger with holy urgency, while staying committed to inner purity and hating anything defiled by the flesh. The emphasis is on inner disposition as much as outward action.
Neville's Inner Vision
To save with fear is to align your awareness with the truth that all life is one mind. The 'fire' represents the burning beliefs in others and in yourself that keep them trapped, and to pull them out is to exercise a state of consciousness that already knows their freedom. When you stand in the I AM as the rescuer, fear becomes reverence—an attentive, nonjudgmental seeing that the danger is only a belief you can dissolve. Hating the garment spotted by the flesh is not about condemning others; it is your refusal to identify with polluted thoughts. You revise those thoughts by imagining them whole and pure, clothing them in light, while you keep your own inner garment spotless. Salvation, then, is not a distant event but a present reality you cultivate by imagination. Your act of saving reveals and reinforces your own awakening, for you and the other are one consciousness, and lifting another lifts you. Proceed with quiet certainty, and know that every rescue is a revival of the I AM in you.
Practice This Now
Assume the rescuer state now: close your eyes, say, 'I AM the I AM that saves; I pull you from the fire,' and feel the relief as your own. Then revise any fear by affirming inner purity and imagining the other stepping into light while your own garment remains spotless.
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