The Inner King's Roar Within
Proverbs 20:2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 20 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Proverbs 20:2 likens the king's fear to a lion's roar; provoking the king invites anger that harms the provoker's own soul.
Neville's Inner Vision
The verse speaks with the language of kings and lions, yet its true king is the I AM within you. The fear of the king is not fear of a man but fear of your own power as awareness; when you provoke the king to anger you do not wound him, you wound your own soul by clinging to a belief in separation. The roaring lion becomes your mental projection of external authority, a signal to wake up and revise your state of consciousness. I am the ruler of my inner kingdom; the king is the measure of my belief, and anger arises only when I identify with a state opposed to the I AM. Therefore, I choose to turn the roar into a cue for alignment: I assume the posture of the king who knows he rules from within and is not moved by appearances. As I dwell in the feeling of the I AM, the external king's power to provoke wanes, and I discover righteousness as the natural order of consciousness.
Practice This Now
When you feel provoked by authority, close your eyes, breathe deeply, and declare, 'I am the king of my own consciousness; I revise fear into confident awareness now.' Then imagine the lion's roar dissolving into a warm, guiding light at the center of your chest.
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