Inner Profit of Serving God
Malachi 3:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Malachi 3 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
People speak against God, asking what profit there is in keeping His ordinances. They lament a life of obedience as vain.
Neville's Inner Vision
Your accounts of God are not external judgments but inner conversations. The stout words against the Lord reveal a state of consciousness fixed in lack and doubt; obedience seems costly because the vibrational reality of the self is not yet aligned with it. When you say it is vain to serve God, you are confessing a belief that you are separate from the I AM, that awareness cannot profit you. Yet the law of consciousness says imagination creates reality: whenever you persist in that belief, you inhabit it and it becomes your life. The remedy is revision: declare inwardly that the service of God is the highest act of self-acknowledgment; imagine that your ordinances are the dictates of your true nature, and walk as one who is governed by the I AM. Do not chase outward results; instead feel the presence of your higher self and let gratitude accompany the act of obedience. The profit is not measured in coin but in the harmony of your inner state, in a consciousness that is at peace, assured, and alive with purpose.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: In the next moments, close your eyes and declare, 'I am the I AM; I serve God by aligning my thought with truth.' Then revise any stubborn thought that says obedience is vain, and feel the reality of inner profit rising as you breathe.
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