Inner Law Realization
Romans 2:26-27 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Romans 2 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Romans 2:26-27 suggests that righteousness is not determined by outward circumcision but by an inner fidelity to the law; those who live from inner alignment can count as circumcision what the outward observer calls uncircumcision, and those who rely on literal forms may be judged by those who fulfill the law inwardly.
Neville's Inner Vision
The verses speak not of physical procedure but of states of consciousness. The “uncircumcision” represents the person who has no external rite yet lives the righteousness of the law through an inner alignment with life’s order. The “circumcision by nature” who fulfills the law is the heart awakened to its unity with the I AM, the awareness that animates all law. When your inner state is true to the law, your outward signs lose their exclusive claim; the letter falls away as you step into the living reality of the law fulfilled within you. If you judge by form, you miss the living measure of righteousness, for the I AM within you is the judge and the law itself. You are invited to rewrite your sense of separation: the inner state of righteousness is the true circumcision, the seal upon your experience that renders outward signs secondary to inner realization. The shift is from doing to being—from ritual to the felt presence that you are the embodiment of the law right now.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and declare, 'I AM the righteousness of the law fulfilled within me now.' Sit with the feeling of inner circumcision—your heart sealed by the I AM—until the sense of separation from the law dissolves, and life answers from within.
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