Nazareth Inner Growth

Luke 2:51-52 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Luke 2 in context

Scripture Focus

51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
52And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Luke 2:51-52

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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