Neville Goddard Lectures: “God Has A Purpose”

19 Jan Neville Goddard Lectures: “God Has A Purpose”

5/22/64

Tonight’s subject is “God Has a Purpose,” an infinite purpose, and no one will thwart it. But within the framework of his purpose, you and I could have unnumbered objectives, and no one, really, could thwart it if we really understand his law; the law that was given to us…how we, too, can realize these purposes. A purpose, in a strict sense, is a deliberately conceived plan proposing a certain action, or a plan to be executed within that action.

Now tonight let us take it first in the most simple way. Many months ago I asked a very simple question, “Why, why did you create the universe, just why?” I never doubted that there is a God, for I’ve stood in the presence of the Ancient of Days…but why? And the voice came from the very depth, “Hatching, just hatching.” So the very end of it all is hatching. Hatching what? He’s hatching out himself. Who by looking at a little worm, one of these little caterpillars, could ever predict his future as a painted butterfly? Who by looking at an egg, not knowing the contents, could predict the beauty of the peacock or maybe another beautiful, beautiful bird? Who by looking at man could predict Jesus Christ? Who in this world by looking at man could see that man is but the egg and out of man will come Jesus Christ? Not one will fail, for his purpose is that not one will be lost in all my holy mountain.

But within the framework of his purpose, you and I can take the same technique and we cannot fail. Now, it is for hatching. Well, we are not nesting correctly if we ever fall asleep in any nest other than the feeling of the wish fulfilled. For at night all the birds return to their nests. Through the day they have intervals upon that nest. You go out to make a living in the world of Caesar, and you may forget, and numberless things may happen that cause you to even forget for a moment that there is such a thing as a nest. But you must remember that there is on that nest that you built, as you prepared it or you conceived it, it’s a deliberate constructive plan on which you will sit. As we are told in Habakkuk, “I will stand upon my watch and see what the Lord will say unto me, and what I will answer.” The next verse, Every seed, really, has its own appointed hour—for he’s telling us that all the visions, well, the vision is simply your little seed or your egg—“The vision has its own appointed hour; it ripens, it will flower. If it be long, then wait; for it is sure and it will not be late” (Hab. 2:3).

For, there are different time intervals for all the different eggs of the world. I may have an egg based upon a yearly income, or an egg based upon a weekly income, or a monthly income. If I take it over a long period of time, well, then wait. If the first day, week, month or even the first six months are slow but I am faithful to that egg which is a yearly income, at the end of the year I will look back upon the most fantastic year I’ve ever had. So in the course of a day I will fly from that nest and do all kinds of things and forget; but at night let me return to that nest and keep that seed warm, keep that egg warm. And then do, as we’re told in Habakkuk, “I will stand upon my watch, and I will watch to see what the Lord will say unto me and what I will answer.” Well then, the Lord is simply the whole vast world pushed out, for the Lord is I AM. So I am sitting on this state and then I look upon my world, my world is myself fragmented, and that is what the Lord is saying unto me. When I think of my friends and see them mentally in my mind’s eye, what are they saying? Are they congratulating me? Am I accepting their praise graciously? Well, then I will now sit upon this nest and fall asleep in this assumption, in this state; for I am standing upon my watch and watching to see and to hear what the world (the Lord) will say unto me and what I will answer. What is my response when they say what they must say seeing me as their friend so successfully lifted up in this world?