What if God is your imagination?

 Welcome to the Daily Bible Chapter. My name is James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I attempt to read the Bible with fresh eyes, as if I don't know anything about it, and without consulting experts on what it "really" means.. Let's see where this takes us! 

Deuteronomy 28

I'm reading Young's Literal Translation (YLT) and the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

Concurrent with this Bible project, I'm writing commentaries on A Course in Miracles and (at this stage, anyway) teaching a class on Neville Goddard. The ideas of all three are closely linked.

This week I've been re-reading Neville's Awakened Imagination. I've repeatedly said that I believe the "LORD" in the Bible stories we've read is your higher self, your highest consciousness. I think it's useful to use Neville's word for it: imagination. Your imagination is that higher self. Your imagination is God.

Wherever you read "God," the LORD, "the Lord your God," the Lord God," think of the words "your imagination" instead. Neville's idea is that if you remain faithful to what you desire in your imagination, the external world will move in the direction of your desires and they will "harden into fact" despite the "evidence of your senses."

When you "keep God's commandments," that is, to remain faithful in your imagination, you will be blessed. If, however, you "disobey" or stray from your vision, that means you don't really believe the life you want is possible. You'll go through life reacting to current conditions, instead of creating the conditions you desire in your imagination.

Life thus conforms to your expectations or assumptions. If you follow the LORD, that is, the desires of your heart that exist in your imagination, then you are assuming you are already blessed. If you don't have that faith and view the world as a dangerous, violent struggle, then the world will conform to that expectation.

What you believe about yourself will come to pass, so you must be diligent in holding on to your faith, and your positive assumptions. 

Obeying the LORD is to live as if the life you desire in your imagination is already true. And it will become true.

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