Neville Goddard on Romans 5:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Romans 5 in context

Scripture Focus

3And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

4And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

Romans 5:3-4

Biblical Context

The passage shows we glory in tribulations because they press us to endure. Through this pressure, patience forms, which becomes experience and then hopeful expectation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, do not mistake the outer trouble for force; it is the movement of your own consciousness toward a richer state. Tribulation is not punishment but the rough wind that sculpts the inner landscape. You are not subjected to trials; you are becoming the I AM that can bear them. When tribulation shows itself, welcome it as a teacher that calls forth patience—the quiet power by which you refuse to react but choose your next state. Patience is not passive waiting but the state of unwavering awareness in which the situation is seen as a signal from your own mind. That signal refines memory into experience; experience then becomes the ground from which hope arises—hope that the future is now being imagined into reality. In this way, every friction is your internal governor guiding you toward a more complete, integrated self. Imagination is the force that converts tribulation into steady evolution.

Practice This Now

Practice now: close your eyes, breathe deeply, and assume the feeling of patient awareness as already mine. Revise the line to, 'Tribulation works patience; patience works experience; experience births hope,' and dwell in that state until it feels real.