Inner Profit of Serving God

Malachi 3:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Malachi 3 in context

Scripture Focus

13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Malachi 3:13-14

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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