Neville Goddard on Isaiah 17:9-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 17 in context

Scripture Focus

9In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

10Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

11In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

Isaiah 17:9-11

Biblical Context

Forgetting the God of salvation brings desolation. Planting without the rock of strength yields a harvest of sorrow.

Neville's Inner Vision

The day spoken of is an inner shift of awareness. When you forget the God of your salvation, you plant thoughts and aims that seem pleasant yet rely on foreign slips; you graft your life with borrowed certainties from fear and cleverness. Such ‘plants’ may appear to flourish in the morning, but their harvest is grief, for they are not rooted in the rock of your strength—the I AM you are. The desolation of the strong city mirrors a mind that has wandered from its source. Return to the inner governor, revise the belief that security lies in outward appearances, and feel the soil of consciousness soften to receive true growth. Your real harvest follows when you live from the assumption that you are saved, that the rock is near, and that nothing can threaten your basic state of awareness. Imagination, rightly used, aligns field and season rather than fleeing from them.

Practice This Now

Assume now that you are the rock of your own strength; feel the I AM as your immediate security. Revise any thought of lack by quietly repeating, 'I am saved; I am safe in God.'