Inner Tribute, Outer Order
Romans 13:6-7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Romans 13 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Authorities are God’s ministers, deserving dues and honor. Rendering to them what is due maintains order and aligns life with divine arrangement.
Neville's Inner Vision
Romans 13:6-7 invites you to see government as a mirror of your own orderly mind. In Neville’s corridor of imagination, 'tribute' is not money paid to a distant authority but the discipline of your own thoughts, attention, and daily choices. The ministers of God are the inner faculties—order, discernment, conscience—ever attending to the business of keeping you aware, awake, and aligned with your desired state. When you render tribute, you acknowledge the necessity of limits, law, and structure as the scaffolding of manifestation. Obedience here is not subservience but the gracious acceptance that certain conditions stabilize your reality so your imagination can freely create. By honoring what is due—your time, your focus, your promises—you refresh the matrix of your life, and your inner world responds with calm, reliable energy. The verse asks you to recognize the providential arrangement: your present circumstances arise from consistent inner states. So practice the inner act of paying tribute to the inner ministers daily, letting their service remind you that you are the I AM, sovereign and orderly, directing your world with faith and patience.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes for a moment and assume the feeling, I am the I AM; I render to the inner ministers what is due. Imagine your life reorganizing itself in orderly response as you maintain attention, discipline, and gratitude.
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