Neville Goddard on Romans 14:13-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 14 in context

Scripture Focus

13Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

14I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

15But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

Romans 14:13-15

Biblical Context

The passage urges us not to judge others, but to refrain from creating stumbling blocks. What some call unclean is a matter of consciousness, and if your actions grieve a brother, practice charity instead.

Neville's Inner Vision

Nothing is unclean in itself, says the text, but the sense of uncleanness lives in my own consciousness. Judgment is a state of mind I entertain; when I declare a thing unclean I am naming a condition in me. To walk with charity toward my brother is to revise that inner state: I do not set up stumbling blocks in his way, nor permit him to fall by my seeming freedoms. If my brother is 'grieved by meat,' I do not insist upon my liberty as a weapon of separation; I step back and bless the wholeness I see in him, and I assume the same wholeness for myself. The real work is inward: imagine the other as he is in God, and let the feeling of unity replace judgment. When I keep this practice, Christ dies to that old division; I am living the resurrection here and now, in the quiet assumed reality of oneness.

Practice This Now

Assume you are already seeing every brother as whole in God. Quietly revise any judgment of uncleanliness, and feel-it-real that you share one I AM with him.