Chasten With Hope Within

Neville's Inner Vision

To interpret Proverbs 19:18-19 in Neville Goddard’s mode, the 'son' is your inner state, the stubborn habit of thought. 'Chasten thy son' becomes a correction of belief within your mind, a deliberate ordering of your awareness until the impulse to react dissolves. 'There is hope' signals that change is possible—the moment you choose a new assumption rather than feeding the old narrative. 'Let not thy soul spare for his crying' means you do not soothe the old drama by capitulating to emotional compulsion; you stand as the I AM, the steady observer who revises the inner script. A 'man of great wrath' is a persistent, heated thought-form; delivering him again and again trains the mind to expect ongoing relief through rescue, which only reinforces the pattern. The law here is not punitive but formative: when you release the illusion of immediate satisfaction, the outer world must conform to the stillness of the revised state. When you inhabit that revised state—calm, decisive, compassionate toward yourself—the external scene reflects an inner order. Discipline becomes the seed by which your future conduct and relationships transform.