Neville Goddard on Titus 1:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Titus 1 in context

Scripture Focus

5For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

6If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

7For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

8But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

9Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

Titus 1:5-9

Biblical Context

Paul charges Titus to organize Crete by appointing elders in every city and ensuring leaders are blameless and temperate. The standards require a bishop to be wise, hospitable, sober, just, holy, and to hold fast to sound teaching so that truth can be spoken to opponents.

Neville's Inner Vision

Crete here is the field of your own consciousness where order must be established. The elders and bishop are inner states you appoint within your mind: blamelessness, temperance, hospitality, sobriety, justice, holiness. When you hear that you must hold fast the faithful word, you are invited to imagine a single guiding principle, and to revise until that principle governs every reaction. The instruction to ordain in each city becomes a practice of aligning every facet of life with your chosen truth, so your daily movements reflect the discipline you desire. To be ‘the steward of God’ is to claim responsibility for your inner realm, not to yield to self-will or anger, wine or impulse. By feeling it real that you are keeping faith with the word taught, you create a self that exhorts and convinces the gainsayers within. In Neville’s mode, you do not seek outward approval; you cultivate a consistent inner law, and through imaginative faith you witness the outward world reorder to match the built interior.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In a quiet minute, assume the inner bishop state—blameless, sober, temperate—and feel the faithful word living as your reality. Let your daily thoughts revise to align with that order, and observe the shift in responses.