Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 1:7-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 1 in context

Scripture Focus

7We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

9But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set my name there.

10Now these are thy servants and thy people, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great power, and by thy strong hand.

Nehemiah 1:7-10

Biblical Context

Nehemiah acknowledges collective failure to keep the commandments and warns of scattering for transgression. The passage also offers a path: turning back to the I AM and alignment with the divine statutes brings restoration and gathering.

Neville's Inner Vision

Nehemiah's words reveal the inner weather of a soul. When the people speak, 'We have dealt very corruptly,' they describe a state of consciousness that has wandered from the inward law. The commandments, statutes, and judgments are not external rules but the orderly nature of the I AM within. To transgress is to misalign attention, scattering it among fear, doubt, and want; exile is the wandering of awareness. Yet the divine warning is not punishment but invitation: 'If ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them'—this is the turning of consciousness back to its original center. The gathering spoken of is the inward gathering of dispersed desires, ideas, and powers into one harmonious activity of awareness. Even when you feel cast out to the uttermost heaven, your I AM can draw you home to the place where the Name is set, the fixed center of your identity. Thus these are thy servants and thy people, redeemed by the great power and mighty hand of your inner God. Redemption, in Neville's sense, is awakening to who you truly are and assuming that reality here and now.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Sit quietly and declare, 'I AM the I AM governing all,' imagining that all scattered parts return to the center of your awareness. Feel the slightest breath of gratitude as you revise your sense of self into wholeness, and observe your inner state shift as if the gathering has begun.