Neville Goddard on Isaiah 37:24-27 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 37 in context

Scripture Focus

24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

26Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Isaiah 37:24-27

Biblical Context

An arrogant ruler boasts of his might and frames his conquests as proof of power, mocking the Lord. The result is the humbling of nations, like grass withering in the wind.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Isaiah's vision, the boast of chariots and mountains is not a report of external victory but a confession of my state of consciousness. The king’s claims are my ego's claim of control: a multitude of thoughts arrayed as chariots, fixed beliefs as Lebanon, a desire to cut down every tree of opposition. 'I have digged, and drunk water' speaks of my sense of supply, as if the river of life could be dried by the mere foot. Yet the true power remains the I AM within; whenever I hear 'Hast thou not heard... I have formed it,' I am invited to awaken to the fact that power is imagined by the I AM, not issued from separate will. The remedy is to reverse the claim: I am not the doer of those events; I am the perceiver who can choose the ruling images. Therefore I revise by declaring: 'I am the I AM; I form this by my inner assumption,' and I dwell in the feeling of the fulfilled state until it becomes my reality. In that moment, the defenced cities dissolve, and I feel the grass of the field—my new state of power—coming alive.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise: I am the I AM; I form this by my inner assumption. Then dwell in the feeling of the fulfilled state until it becomes your immediate experience.