Counting the Cost of Your Tower
Luke 14:28-30 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Luke 14 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage asks you to count the cost before starting a project, so you won't begin something you cannot finish. It warns that unfinished works invite mockery from those who see only the lack of completion.
Neville's Inner Vision
Take Luke 14:28-30 as a map of the inner life. See the tower not as stone and brick but as a state you intend to sustain. The cost you count is the discipline, faith, and unyielding attention required to finish what you begin. Begin by assuming you already stand at the finished height, with every stone in its place because your consciousness has decided it is so. The foundation is your present imagination—what you accept as true about yourself. If you find you cannot finish, revise the premise until the assumption includes completion. The critics who mock the builder are the doubting thoughts within you; when they arise, return to the feeling of completion and the certainty that your reality follows your inner state. In this way, you align your inner conditions with the desired outcome, and the external project moves toward finish under the law of inner causation.
Practice This Now
In the next few minutes, sit quietly, close your eyes, and imagine that you have already finished the tower. Feel the triumph, ease, and steady, unwavering attention that got you there. Then declare softly, 'I am the man who completes what I begin.'
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