Inner Covenant, Inner Obstacles
Judges 2:1-3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Judges 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The angel reminds Israel of the covenant and the rule to cast down the altars. Disobedience allows thorns and snares to remain in the land.
Neville's Inner Vision
From Judges 2:1-3 we see the inner messenger moving through your mind from Gilgal to Bochim. The covenant spoken is the assurance that your awareness will not fail; the land spoken of is the within you, the promised state of consciousness. The command to make no league with the inhabitants and to throw down their altars points to inner loyalties that have taken residence in your thought. When you ignore that inner voice, the mind will not yield its fruit; thorns grow in your experience and the gods you once trusted become snares, pulling your attention away from the one life within. The true adversary, in Neville's sense, is not external people but habitual pictures and beliefs that pretend to power in matter. Your work is to align with the I AM, to root out the inner altars of fear, pride, or dependence, and to recognize every impulse that binds you as an obstacle to your state of consciousness. The message is a call to return to covenant now, to renew obedience in imagination, and to discover that the inner land of freedom is your present awareness.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Sit in quiet, assume you have kept the covenant, revise any sense of lack, and feel the promised land as your present awareness.
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