Inner Distress, Inner Turning
Lamentations 1:20 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse expresses deep distress: the speaker’s heart is unsettled and turned inward because of rebellion. External threats reflect the inner movement of consequence.
Neville's Inner Vision
Behold, O LORD; I am in distress is not asking for help from outside but recognizing the I AM within as the source of reality. Distress arises when I allow a thought to rule as if it were true; the bodily sense (bowels troubled) signals a shift in my inner state. My heart is turned within me shows I have turned away from inner light and embraced an outer condition. For I have grievously rebelled acknowledges a choice to resist the inner order. Abroad the sword bereaveth depicts outer fear as the image reflected from the inner belief; at home there is as death reveals the inner life seems lifeless when I forget the I AM. The remedy is to revise by assuming the truth of the I AM as my sole governor, feel the state of peace until it becomes natural, and let the internal alignment dissolve the fear that projects conflict. By maintaining the assumption that I AM is my reality, the inner and outer world rearrange themselves to reflect wholeness.
Practice This Now
Assume the state now: feel the I AM as your primary reality; revise the story by declaring you are whole, safe, and in divine order, letting that feeling fill you until it becomes your lived experience.
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