Neville Goddard on Luke 19:20-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 19 in context

Scripture Focus

20And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:

21For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

22And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

23Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

Luke 19:20-23

Biblical Context

The parable shows a servant who hides his pound in fear and is judged for not using it. It contrasts faithful action with fearful preservation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the pound is not coin but your living idea, a seed of consciousness entrusted to you by the I AM. The master’s austere countenance represents the unwavering awareness that you are always more than you appear—your true power lies in what you imagine and enact. When the servant says he feared because of the master’s severity, he reveals your habitual fear that your reality is hard and exacting. To revise is to realize that the I AM is not a thief but the bank through which all your seeds return mighty or meek depending on your relation to them. The line 'Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee' means your spoken beliefs expose the degree of your faith; you judge yourself by what you affirm in imagination. Instead of laying the pound in a napkin, you place it in the bank of feeling and intention, letting usury—growth, insight, vitality—come back as you act in your divine role. So awaken now to stewardship: assume abundance, invest your seed with courage, and watch the inner harvest appear in your life.