Inner Reckoning and Mercy
Lamentations 1:22 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Lamentations 1 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The speaker requests that wickedness be brought before God and met with justice. He also confesses heavy sighs and a heart that feels faint.
Neville's Inner Vision
I read the cry of Lamentations as a whisper from a consciousness that believes it has been hurt and must be vindicated. The words 'let all their wickedness come before thee' are not a demand for punishment out there, but an invitation to bring every resistant attitude into the inner courtroom of your I AM. In Neville fashion, imagine that every 'they' who wronged you is a sign of a belief within you you wish to revise. The line 'do unto them' becomes do unto that belief by reversing it—see the self that resists and sighs into a state of quiet acceptance, firmness, and radiant mercy. Your heart, 'faint' in the verse, may be nudging you to discover the power of assumption: to feel the reality of the justice you seek as already done within, in your state of consciousness. When you delight in the awareness that you are the I AM, the outer scene rearranges itself to reflect your inner alignment—compassion, release, and renewed strength flowing from within.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the state of I AM, seeing the sense of wickedness as a belief to be revised. Feel the relief as justice and mercy germinate within you, and let the outer scene reflect that inner alignment.
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