Nazareth Inner Growth
Luke 2:51-52 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Luke 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jesus returns to Nazareth and submits to his earthly parents. He then increases in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the verses, the boyhood scene is not a quaint event but an invitation into your inner life. Nazareth stands for your ordinary self, where your I AM, the awareness you are, learns to be subject to the calls of life without losing its divine center. When it says he was subject unto them, it is teaching you to align your feeling and choices with the legitimate authorities you have accepted as life’s structure—without rebellion, and with reverent trust in the higher order. Mary kept all these sayings in her heart: your inner memory stores the truth that cannot be erased by appearances. And then the shift occurs: Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. This is the psychological law: consistent, imaginative attention to the good, which expands your inner capacity and your outward demonstration. By dwelling in the I AM, revising limiting assumptions, you rise in inner wisdom and stature, and your relations—human and divine—conform to your renewed state.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Assume you are already in inner Nazareth, subject to your divine authorities. Feel the heart storing truth, and declare, I am increasing in wisdom and favor now.
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