Inner Mercy and the I AM
Numbers 14:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 14 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Numbers 14:18 presents God as longsuffering and merciful, forgiving sins, while also indicating that the effects of guilt may echo beyond the individual. It invites inner reformation, not external punishment.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within you the LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy—the I AM that never abandons the scene of your life. This verse reveals that forgiveness arises from your inner state, not from a distant decree, and that the appearance of guilt is only the signal of a belief habit you have entertained. The 'iniquity and transgression' you name are inner images; the 'fathers' and their 'children' are your recurrent circumstances—the patterns your imagination has rehearsed in time. The third and fourth generation warning is simply the law of repeated feeling manifesting as the world you see. Yet the mercy remains available as soon as you revise the assumed identity, forgive the old scene, and hold the mood of unconditional acceptance. When you align with the I AM, you do not erase the guilty; you render it harmless by realizing you and it are one in the same intelligent love. In that awareness the entire world changes to reflect forgiveness rather than judgment.
Practice This Now
Sit quietly, breathe, and imagine an encounter where you respond from the I AM with forgiveness. Feel the revised state as already true, and carry that mood into your next moment.
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