Inner Grace and Divine Sovereignty
Matthew 20:15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Matthew 20:15 speaks to the owner's right to do as he wills with his own, and invites us to examine our own judgments about who gets good. The real point is inner sovereignty and the freeing nature of grace.
Neville's Inner Vision
Notice that the 'mine own' is your inner estate of consciousness. The I AM within you is the throne on which all good is decreed and distributed. When you hear the question, 'Is thine eye evil, because I am good?' your old mind is exposed—the tendency to measure, to envy another's blessing, to call abundance unfair. Yet the Master is not talking about persons or profit; he is pointing you to your own state of awareness. You are the owner who can do as you will with the good you have perceived. The moment you accept that the I AM can bestow freely, you release the need to justify another's happiness or your own deprivation. Grace ceases to be external mercy and becomes a felt reality within; you are the one who creates by assuming the state of abundance and the right to give or withhold only according to your inner will to bless. Practice, then, is to assume a revised state: 'I am the I AM that dispenses all good; I am freely generous with all, including myself.'
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and declare, I am the I AM, I freely bestow good now. Then visualize blessing someone you once deemed undeserving, and feel the abundance flowing toward you.
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