From Despair to Inner Nourishment
Lamentations 4:10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse portrays extreme suffering where people, pressed by ruin, appear to consume what sustains them. It offers a stark image of inward collapse under calamity.
Neville's Inner Vision
Plainly the words describe a city in the grip of ruin, where the hands of sorrow push their own nourishment toward destruction. In the inner sense, this is not a historical act but a state of consciousness that has forgotten its Source. The hands are habits of attention that starve hope when life seems exhausted; the 'meat' is the meaning we feed the mind with. When belief fixates on lack, the inner scene reproduces catastrophe. Yet the I AM within you remains the unmoveable witness, the anchor behind every thought. You can revise the entire picture by adopting a new assumption: I am sustained by an infinite consciousness; supply flows through me now. When you feel this, the appetite to devour your future dissolves and the image softens into a dawn of renewal. Your inner resources—love, imagination, and knowing—begin to feed your life instead of devouring it. The pitiful vision fades as you realize you are the I AM, and that this I AM nourishes the daughter of your life with divine abundance.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the I AM as the constant provider within you. Revise the scene by affirming, 'I am nourished by infinite consciousness; life feeds me from within.'
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