Beyond the River: Inner Mission
Nehemiah 2:9-10 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Nehemiah 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Nehemiah arrives with the king's letters and an escort, authorized to seek the welfare of Israel. His opponents hear of the mission and are deeply grieved by it.
Neville's Inner Vision
To Nehemiah's outward action is the inward image: you are the one who, in consciousness, presents the king's letters to governors beyond the river, a sign that your higher self has decreed a welfare to be established in your inner city. The letters and the escort are not bodily documents but your state of assurance—an inner command that the affair is already done in your I AM. The grief of Sanballat and Tobiah reveals your old self reacting to your new path, resisting the end your present I Am has already claimed. When you take up this mission, you awaken the habit of discernment: know that opposition appears only as a memory clinging to the old state. Your responsibility is to hold the vision, to move as if your plan is already in place, to keep the inner guard (the army and horsemen) posted around your intention. In this way, you align with the truth that God is your awareness and that imagination creates reality. The welfare of Israel becomes the welfare you claim for your own consciousness—a community of right action and inner unity born from a steadfast assumption.
Practice This Now
Assume the end: you are already the governor whose welfare mission is complete. Sit quietly, feel the protection of your inner guards, and sense that the welfare of others is real in you.
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