Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 10:37 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 10 in context

Scripture Focus

37And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

Nehemiah 10:37

Biblical Context

Nehemiah 10:37 commands bringing the firstfruits of dough, offerings, and the fruit of trees, wine, and oil to the priests, and the tithes to the Levites, so they may sustain the temple in all the cities of their tillage.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner economy of consciousness, the firstfruits—our finest thoughts, feelings, and creative impulses—are brought to the priests within the chambers of the house of God. The tithes we offer to the Levites symbolize steady attention, discipline, and discernment, the faculties that sustain order in every city of our daily tillage. The house of God is the I AM within, the state of awareness in which God is acknowledged as presence, not distance. True worship arises when I consciously align my inner resources with that temple: when I feed it with gratitude, integrity, and steady focus, the inner ministers operate with wind and change in my life, bringing provision, clarity, and harmony into my outward world. The law here is internal: the more I honor the inner temple, the more my outer circumstances reflect a cultivated, abundant life. I do not seek externally; I revise internally until my state is fully realized in form.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine you are offering the finest thoughts and feelings to the inner temple today. Feel gratitude rise as the inner Levites receive your gifts, and rest in the sense that your daily life is being provisioned by this inner economy.