Inner Vow, Inner Echo

Judges 11:34-36 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Judges 11 in context

Scripture Focus

34And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
35And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD, and I cannot go back.
36And she said unto him, My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth; forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon.
Judges 11:34-36

Biblical Context

Jephthah returns home to his vow's consequence: his daughter, his only child, meets him with celebration, and he laments that the vow to the LORD cannot be undone even as he grieves the personal cost.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner temple, the drama reveals how a vow spoken in the heat of decision binds your outer world to an imagined result. Jephthah’s daughter becomes not a literal fate but a symbol of your own creative power—the impulse that seeks expression when a boundary is spoken. In Neville’s psychology, God is the I AM, the awareness that animates every scene. The moment you identify with a vow or a future outcome, you imprison your energy in a storyline of lack or tragedy. Yet the I AM is free of time; it simply is, and imagination creates the scenes you accept as real. To transform the drama, revise the vow in your imagination so that your state of consciousness governs, not a spoken command. Return to the truth that your inner awareness, not external events, gives meaning to every appearance. Restate the commitment as alignment with the divine will now, and feel the release that follows when you recognize you are the author of your life.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the vow as an inner alignment with the I AM. Then feel the release as you imagine the outcome already fulfilled in your awareness.

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