Inner Riches, Shallow Loyalties
Judges 9:4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Judges 9 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse reports that seventy pieces of silver were taken from Baalberith's treasury and used by Abimelech to hire vain, shallow followers. This highlights how wealth and false worship are interwoven to secure loyalty.
Neville's Inner Vision
To the I AM within, the 'house of Baalberith' is a mental temple where false covenants are kept—an inner treasury of tokens and beliefs that money equals power and loyalty. The seventy pieces of silver are not coins but thoughts, priorities, and attachments that you value over truth. When Abimelech hires 'vain and light persons,' you glimpse the peril of living from surface results: loyalty based on gain, fear of loss, appearances rather than truth. The true kingdom is not purchased; it is awakened within by the recognition that you, I AM, are the source. So the remedy is not to abandon wealth, but to realign it with true worship and covenant loyalty—to let the inner law govern, not the idol of money. The inner economy responds to the fidelity of your attention. As you revise, you invite steadfast souls and genuine loyalty, not fickle external approval. Align your inner covenant with honesty, integrity, and true worship, and outward patterns will reflect that inner fidelity.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, breathe, and declare, 'The I AM is my only treasury; provision and loyalty flow from within.' Visualize the inner temple becoming a sanctuary of true worship, and feel the reality of a steady stream of right outcomes from that inner covenant.
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