Inner Temptation And Divine Oversight
Proverbs 5:20-23 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
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Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The passage warns a son to avoid illicit allure and notes that all paths are seen by the LORD. When one follows such impulses, self-made cords bind, and folly leads to ruin.
Neville's Inner Vision
Observe, within, the warning is not about a person crossing your door, but a state of consciousness you entertain as real. The strange woman is the lure of a thought, the belief that you are lacking and must grasp an outside sensation to feel alive. The ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD—the I AM that you are is watching every movement of your thought; therefore any impulse—no matter how vivid— is only a projection of your inner state. If you identify with lack, fear, or appetite and imagine pursuing it as if it were a foreign savior, you bind yourself with cords of sin that you have drawn with your own thought. The death and folly are not punitive courts but the natural consequence of refusing instruction from your inner guide. To resist, you must shift your inner image and revise the belief that you are incomplete. Rule by the I AM, not by appearances; your awareness is the path that transforms what seems external.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the feeling of purity already realized; declare the I AM is the observer of all thoughts, and you revise this moment into alignment with divine consciousness and feel it real.
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