Neville Goddard on Habakkuk 3:16-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Habakkuk 3 in context

Scripture Focus

16When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

18Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

19The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Habakkuk 3:16-19

Biblical Context

Habakkuk hears of coming danger, and his body trembles. Yet he resolves to rejoice in the LORD, trusting that God is his strength and will lift him to high places.

Neville's Inner Vision

Whenever the outer report sounds of trouble, I notice the belly tremble and the lips quiver; this is only the body's response to fear, not the truth of my being. The famine in Habakkuk's vision—no blossoms, no fruit, no herd—shows the empty outward conditions that a mind without inner life calls real. I do not deny appearances, but I do not consent to them as final. I assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled: the LORD God is my strength, and my feet are made like hinds' feet, able to tread the high places now. I rest in the day of trouble by claiming that I am not separate from the I AM; I imagine walking on elevated ground, my consciousness rising above lack and limitation. As I dwell in that awareness, fear dissolves into confidence, and the sense of scarcity loses its grip. The process turns outward events into translations of inner power: famine becomes abundance in imagination, and the ascent becomes steady movement in life. Thus I climb the spiritual terrain with joy, not because fear has vanished, but because I have found the presence that never fails.