Hearing the Cry Within
Proverbs 21:13 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 21 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Proverbs 21:13 shows that turning a deaf ear to the poor is an inner refusal; neglecting others leads to your own needs being unheard.
Neville's Inner Vision
The verse speaks not of judgment, but of a law within your consciousness. The cry of the poor is the echo of your I AM, the awareness through which all things are formed. If you stop hearing, you reinforce a state in which your own future experiences are shut off from you. To hear with compassion is to align your inner disposition with abundance, justice, and mercy. When you regard another as your equal and respond from that unity, you awaken a flow of energy that fulfills not only their needs but your own possibilities. The practice is to treat every call for help as a personal summons from your own higher self, and to revise any hardened instinct into generous action. In this shift, you discover that your external world mirrors the changed state you hold within, and your future cries are heard as you become the answer you sought.
Practice This Now
Practice for 1–2 minutes: assume you are the I AM hearing the cry of the poor as your own; then act in a small, tangible way today. Repeat a reviving affirmation like, 'I am the I AM that hears and responds now,' until the feeling of compassionate action saturates your day.
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