The Wilderness Voice Within
Mark 1:3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
A voice cries in the wilderness, urging you to prepare for the Lord by straightening your inner path. The call is to shift your state inward, not to seek outward changes.
Neville's Inner Vision
The verse locates a voice crying in the wilderness—the mind untamed and unclarified—calling you to prepare the way for the Lord within. In Neville's psychology, the 'Lord' is your own I AM presence, the clear, unchanging awareness you are. The wilderness is the array of worn beliefs and uneasy images you have accepted as real. Hearing the cry is the invitation to revise your state by a simple, persistent assumption: that the Lord is within you now. When you assume the truth of that presence and feel it as present, your inner landscape shifts; old roads of fear bend into straight paths of confidence and peace. You do not chase external results; you realign the center of your consciousness, and as your feeling-state matches the truth you intend, the 'way' in your mind becomes straight and accessible. The command 'prepare ye the way' becomes a daily discipline of turning attention inward, validating your own awareness, and living from the certainty that the Kingdom of God—your present I AM awareness—exists here and now.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, fix your attention on the I AM within, and mentally declare, 'The Lord is within me now.' Then imagine a road appearing before you, straight and clear, and walk along it inwardly, feeling confidence and ease.
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