Inner Discipline, Inner Deliverance
Proverbs 23:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 23 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage urges timely correction for the child. Disciplined guidance guards the soul from ruin.
Neville's Inner Vision
I tell you, the 'child' is the lively impulse within you—the part that rashly seeks comfort or power. Withholding correction is withholding awareness; the rod is not a weapon but a decision of consciousness—a steadfast rule you choose to live by until it yields obedience. When you declare, I AM, I correct my thoughts to meet the divine order, you deliver that part of you from the hell of scattered fear. The hell-state is a discordant mind, a dream out of alignment; the cure is inner discipline born of clear purpose. Apply the rod as a steady boundary of truth—not punishment, but precision of feeling and thought. Through disciplined imagination, you train the inner child to choose harmony over impulse. Your imagination is the parent, your awareness the field; discipline becomes the gate through which you enter a higher mood. What appears in the world follows from this inner arrangement. Persist in the assumed state of a well-ordered mind and the outer scene will align with it, delivering the soul from ruin.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and affirm I AM; imagine a gentle rod of truth circling the inner child and set a fixed boundary for your thoughts. Revise one anxious belief into a confident, loving directive and feel it as already done.
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