Facing Inner Judgment Now
Matthew 23:33 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jesus calls the leaders serpents and vipers, signaling that their present way invites serious consequences. It points to inner accountability and a turning from judgment toward true reform.
Neville's Inner Vision
Verse 33 speaks not of distant peoples but of your own inner state. The serpents and vipers are the recurring thoughts that condemn and separate you from your true nature. Judgment and fear arise as inner movements when you identify with a mind that calls itself righteous while damning what it judges. Hell, in Neville's sense, is the habitual feeling of separation from the I AM—your awareness that believes it is other than God. The remedy is not to fight the world but to choose a different inner stance: imagine, revise, and feel it real that you are the I AM expressing as you now. Say to yourself, 'I am the living God in whom all divides vanish; I am forgiven, I am whole, I am one with creation.' When you dwell in that assumption, your outer conditions shift accordingly, and the self-accusation dissolves. You do not change God by changing your neighbor; you awaken to your own awareness and hence reveal liberation already yours.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: In the next few minutes, close your eyes and breathe into the feeling 'I am the I AM'; revise any self-condemnation by saying 'I am forgiven' and dwell there until the sense of separation dissolves. Let the atmosphere of unity fill you and watch your outer life respond.
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