Inner Instruction, Outer Consequences
Proverbs 5:9-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Proverbs 5 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Proverbs 5:9-14 warns you not to give your honor or wealth to external powers, but to heed inner instruction. It describes the regret and near-evil that arise when you ignore your inner teachers within the inner assembly of life.
Neville's Inner Vision
Consider Proverbs 5:9-14 as a map of your inner world. When I seek honor from others and let my years be spent in a cruel outer order, I am living in a state that is not mine—my wealth flowing into the house of a stranger, my vitality spent in false pursuits. The cry of 'flesh and body consumed' is simply the body speaking for the mind that has drifted from inner instruction. The 'teachers' and their 'reproof' are the living I AM, the inner voice that corrects thought and feeling. To resist that voice is to dwell inside the midst of seeing and unseeing, and I move toward near-evil by habit. But the whole condition can be reversed by recognizing that God is the I AM within, and that imagination is the instrument by which I revise my life. If I claim that inner guidance now, I will see the outer world align with my true state.
Practice This Now
Imaginative Act: Assume right now that you are attended by the inner teacher; revise any belief that your value rests in others. Feel it-real by silently affirming, 'I am the I AM, and I listen to the voice within.'
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