Neville Goddard on Titus 1:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Titus 1 in context

Scripture Focus

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;

Titus 1:7-8

Biblical Context

Titus 1:7-8 lays out the qualifications of a bishop as a blameless steward of God, emphasizing self-control, gentleness, sobriety, justice, holiness, and temperance, while eschewing self-will, anger, drunkenness, violence, and greed. It calls for a heart that loves hospitality and goodneess, and that lives with restraint and integrity.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s sense, this passage is not about an external office but about the state of your inner consciousness. God is the I AM within, and being blameless is the condition of alignment where you act as a steward of life, not a tyrant of it. When you are not selfwilled, you release the illusion of separate agency and allow the one Life to express through you with ease. Anger dissolves as you identify with the serene observer who loves hospitality and the good in others, recognizing the good in yourself. To be not given to wine or filthy lucre is to free your mind from attachments that would distort perception; to be sober, just, holy, and temperate is to let right discernment govern action. The fruits—hospitality, love of good men, justice, holiness, temperance—are outward signs of the inward recognition that you are the I AM, already perfectly aligned. By imagining yourself in this state, you rewrite circumstances so that life reflects your revised consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and step into the state of being a blameless steward of God within your consciousness. Feel yourself governed by hospitality, justice, sobriety, and temperance; affirm quietly, I am the steward of God, in control of my thoughts and actions.