Cozbi and the Inner Covenant
Numbers 25:15 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Numbers 25 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Verse names Cozbi, a Midianite woman, and notes her slain status, identifying her as the daughter of Zur and a leader among Midian. It anchors a moment of naming an outer threat but invites inner interpretation.
Neville's Inner Vision
Within the inner scripture, Cozbi is not a person but a habit of mind—an idolatrical appetite that claims authority over a portion of your life. The Midianite is the foreign, alluring thought-world that tempts you to mingle worship and loyalty, to bend the covenant to your desires. The line he was head over a people declares that a ruling belief sits on the throne of your consciousness, shaping a realm of feeling and action. To slay Cozbi is to refuse that ruling thought and to acknowledge that your true authority is the I AM, the indwelling awareness that does not bow to external power. The event becomes an inner movement: a clear decision to separate the cherished idolatry from your sense of covenant loyalty, which is your alignment with your true Self. Thus, the covenant is not a law without, but a living alignment with I AM within—holiness as inner discipline, not external ritual. When you name and denounce Cozbi in your imagination, you dissolve the false worship and empower a faithful state that governs your life with love, purity, and clarity.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and revise the state: I am the I AM; Cozbi is slain in me. Feel the return of covenant loyalty as a steady, holy motion within.
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