“Remember My Chains”: A Neville Goddard Interpretation of Colossians 4:18

“The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.” — Colossians 4:18

Let me tell you, when Paul says “Remember my chains,” he isn’t just asking for sympathy—he’s giving us a key to inner transformation.

To a surface reader, this verse might seem like a simple closing—a personal sign-off from a man in prison. But through the symbolic understanding Neville Goddard brings to the Bible, we begin to see something deeper. Paul represents the awakened imagination—the part of us that recognises its creative power, that knows consciousness is the only reality.

When Paul writes with his own hand, he is asserting authorship—just as we, through imagination, must take full responsibility for the states we occupy. And his request to “remember my chains” becomes a powerful psychological symbol: a reminder of the inner bondage we experience when we try to move into a new state of being while still tethered to the old.

These “chains” are the doubts, habits, and assumptions that haven’t yet been reconditioned. Neville often spoke of the tension one feels in the gap between assumption and manifestation. The world has not yet conformed, and so we feel imprisoned. But this is not failure—it is part of the process. The old man is fading, and the new man is not yet seen.

Then comes the blessing: “Grace be with you.” Grace, in Neville’s terms, is not effort—it is flow. It is the natural, effortless unfolding that happens once you have assumed the feeling of the wish fulfilled and remain faithful to it.

And finally, “Amen.” The seal. The commitment. The fixing of the imaginal act.

So remember the chains—not as defeat, but as the evidence that something within you is shifting. Stay with the feeling. Grace is already on the move.