Valley to Wilderness Exodus
Numbers 14:25 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 14 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse marks a shift from dwelling in the valley to turning into the wilderness by the Red Sea. It implies leaving an unfavorable terrain for a guided inner journey.
Neville's Inner Vision
The mind is the landscape; the valley hosts fearful dwellers, the Amalekites and Canaanites as inner obstacles. When the command says Tomorrow turn you, it is a law of consciousness: decide and let attention turn toward a new path. The wilderness by the Red Sea becomes a symbolic shore of imagination where limitation dissolves and freedom asserts itself. By willing a shift in state, you exit exile and enter the home of faith, trust, and expectation of a future shaped by inner decree rather than outer circumstance. The journey is not geographic but experiential: you move from the remembered scene of struggle to a present awareness that is unconditioned by the valley. If you persist in the imagined crossing, the valley loses its grip and a new order takes form within you as reality.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume the next moment as the wilderness by the Red Sea; revise your sense of self to that liberated state and feel it real by sustaining the sensation of freedom for one minute.
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