Neville Goddard on Proverbs 6:6-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Proverbs 6 in context

Scripture Focus

6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

10Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

11So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Proverbs 6:6-11

Biblical Context

The passage urges the lazy to study the ant's industrious ways, wake from sleep, and realize that procrastination leads to lack; inner discipline and timely action build inner abundance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Behold the ant not as creature but as a vivid state of consciousness—a mind that acts in season and stores for the unseen harvest. The sluggard is a belief in lack, a dream of ease that rules the day. There is no outer overseer commanding order within you; the inner I AM, the God within, is the sole ruler when you awaken. Like the ant, you are urged to provide for your life in the summer of awareness and gather in the harvest of circumstances. If you linger in a little sleep, a little slumber, you invite poverty as a traveling companion. Your world is the outward sign of your inner movement; change the inner movement and the outer conditions will change to match. So revise the sense of limitation by assuming you are the provident ant—organized, foresightful, resourceful. Feel the reality of inner provision now, and let that feeling inform every action that follows.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the inner ant gathering food in the inner summer; declare I am provided for now and dwell in that feeling until it feels real.