Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 10:28-31 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 10 in context

Scripture Focus

28And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

29They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;

30And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

31And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Nehemiah 10:28-31

Biblical Context

A remnant separates to the Law of God, binding themselves by oath to observe all of God's commandments. They vow to uphold social boundaries, Sabbath-keeping, and debt principles.

Neville's Inner Vision

I read Nehemiah 10:28-31 as a map of states. The rest of the people who separated themselves to the law are the parts of my consciousness that turn from the clamor of the lands and return to the I AM the living Law within. The oath and curse symbolize the decisive turning of mind toward a disciplined order; when I assume the stance to walk in God's law I consent to be governed by the commandments that Moses represented as the revealed order of my inner world. To not give our daughters to the land means I guard my inner atmosphere from foreign ideas that would dilute conviction; to honor the Sabbath is to dwell in the stillness of awareness rather than the bustle of appearances; to keep the seventh year and release every debt is to let go of past expenses, grievances, and fear based debts in the imagination. I can embody this covenant now by calling forth the feeling that I am the one keeping this law in my heart, and that my outer life must reflect the inner divine order. The more faithfully I stand in this state, the more the world begins to conform.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, imagine you are one with the remnant keeping the law, and feel the oath as a living state within you. Repeat a revision: I am governed by God's law in me; I observe the Sabbath of awareness and release all past debts and distractions.