Planted in Death, Raised in Life
Romans 6:5 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Romans 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Romans 6:5 teaches that sharing in Christ's death implies sharing in his resurrection, signaling an inner transformation where the old self dies and a new life awakens within consciousness. It invites you to identify with this inner process now, not waiting for external events.
Neville's Inner Vision
Romans 6:5 is an invitation to wake to a single, living state: your I AM, the consciousness you call self, is the soil where death and life are inseparably held. To be planted together in the likeness of his death means surrendering the old image of yourself—fear, lack, limitation—into the ground of awareness and letting it die in your attention. This 'death' is not punishment but preparation, a turning of the soil so the seed of a new self can take root. The 'likeness of his resurrection' is the present vision you cultivate by assuming the feeling of already being risen. When you persist in this inner alignment, the old patterns lose their grip, not by force but by replaced relevance in awareness. You do not seek life outside you; you discover it as the I AM within you, already alive, already capable, already free. The external world becomes the echo of the inner image you permit to stand. Trust the process as you live from the end, and the fleshly past yields to a life that mirrors the risen self.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and silently affirm, 'I am the I AM, risen now.' Visualize standing in a field of light, the old self buried in soil and a new self rising, and feel the certainty of the resurrection here and now.
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