Inner Jordan of Confession
Matthew 3:5-6 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Matthew 3 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Jerusalem, Judaea, and all around Jordan come to John to be baptized, confessing sins; the act signals a turning of conscience. The baptism symbolizes cleansing of inner states and turning toward repentance.
Neville's Inner Vision
Matthew 3:5-6 reveals the entire mind gathering at a Jordan of decision. Jerusalem, Judaea, and every region around the Jordan appear outwardly, yet the real movement is inward: a turning of consciousness toward the I AM. The crowd’s confession and baptism symbolize the act of naming a belief you’ve kept as true and choosing to release it into the current of life. When you consciously confess, you place that old story on the flowing river of awareness and let it dissolve; when you assent to the I AM as your eternal ground, baptism becomes a renewal of your inner climate. Purity and integrity are not found in an exterior rite, but in the inward revision that aligns you with your true self. In Neville’s terms, the river is your imagination in motion; your states of consciousness pass through it and are changed by your decision to identify with the living I AM. Your world shifts as you claim, palpably, that you are clean and free here and now.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and stand at your inner Jordan. Assert, 'I am baptized into the I AM'; release the old guilt and revise it, while feeling it real.
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