Neville Goddard on Matthew 18:2-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Matthew 18 in context

Scripture Focus

2And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

3And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

4Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:2-4

Biblical Context

Jesus sets a child before the crowd and declares that entering the kingdom requires a conversion to a childlike state. Humility and trust become the gateway to the inner realm of God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the scene as a mirror of your own mind. The little child in the center represents a you unburdened by pride, a consciousness open to God’s presence. When you 'convert' and become like a child, you are not returning to old childishness, but entering a fresh state of awareness where imagination is free and fear is absent. The kingdom of heaven is not a distant place but a lived inner atmosphere—the I AM here and now. Humility, in this sense, means bending the self-will until it rests in the assurance that you are consciousness, the perceiver, and the agent of the scene you desire. So the one who humbles himself as a child is the one who is greatest because he has surrendered to the truth that God dwells within him, and that the entire drama unfolds as thoughts within consciousness. Your conversion is a change of mind, a revision of identity, an awakening to your divine nature. Practice this by feigning childlike trust in your inner state and observing how the world answers from within.