Inner Law Awakens Life
Romans 7:9-11 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Romans 7 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Before the commandment, life felt complete; when the commandment comes, sin awakens and life dies. The commandment, though intended for life, is experienced as death because sin deceives by using the law.
Neville's Inner Vision
Here, the 'I' is not the letter of Moses, but your living consciousness. The moment you hear a commandment—an inner rule you think you must obey—sin awakens because you misinterpret yourself as imperfect or lacking life. The law, in your inner world, is not external statute but a perceived standard that divides life from your essence. When you identify with the commandment as governing you, you experience death—the felt separation from the Source you truly are. Yet the commandment itself is life-giving in truth; its effect is to reveal what you believe about yourself. The revival comes not by breaking the law but by recognizing that the I AM is the life that already obeys no one but itself. Therefore, revision is required: affirm that you are the I AM, the bearer of life, and that the so-called sin is simply mistaken perception. By holding the inner state that life is here now, the sense of death dissolves and the original life is restored.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and declare: I am the I AM; I already live by the life that never dies. Then revise any sense of sin by imagining the commandment as an inner light and feel life returning.
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