Inner Fig Tree, Outer Honor
Proverbs 27:18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 27 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse teaches patient care and faithful waiting. Tending what you govern yields its fruit and earns honor from your master.
Neville's Inner Vision
Whose keepeth the fig tree? He keeps the living image of care within; from that inner habit comes the fruit of your life. The master is not a distant person but the I AM you are in consciousness—the inner governor, the law of attention. To wait on that master is to dwell in faithfulness: attend to your mental garden with patience, refuse distraction, and honor the small, quiet movements of imagination until they bear outward form. When you tend the fig tree with a creator’s heart, you are not merely waiting; you are shaping the conditions for fruit. Creation responds to the state you inhabit: loyalty, discipline, and dignity—elements of Imago Dei—become your environment. Obedience to your inner order yields a harvest of apparent results: a fulfilled plan, a steady mood, a sense that all is well under the sovereign I AM. This is not manipulation; it is alignment of your consciousness with its natural law: as you remain faithful to the inner master, the world mirrors that fidelity and honors you.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and assume you are the inner master I AM; visualize tending a fig tree in your mind's garden, feel the fruit forming, and dwell in gratitude as if already yours. Let that feeling linger for a few breaths.
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