Neville Goddard on Isaiah 38:11-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

11I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:11-12

Biblical Context

The speaker feels mortal frailty, thinking the Lord cannot be seen and that life is ending. The verses describe an old self being withdrawn and a sense of separation from the world.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider that the 'LAND of the living' is not a place but a state of consciousness. When the speaker declares, 'I shall not see the LORD,' they are describing a belief—an inner curtain that blocks awareness of the I AM. The LORD, the LORD within, is always present as your awareness; to 'see' the Lord is to dwell in that indwelling life. The lines about age departing and a life cut off are refrains of the old self clinging to separation. In Neville's vocabulary, time and death are states you entertain in mind, not faits accompli. When you feel this inner fading, you are invited to revise the scene: assume you are the I AM now, that you are in the land of the living, that you behold life and others through the living God within. The 'pining sickness' is just a contraction of belief; the end of you is merely the end of a false self imagining itself separate. Restore that unity by imagining the LORD as your continuous and indestructible presence.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the scene: declare I am the LORD within me, I inhabit the land of the living now and feel that presence flooding your breath. Let the senses confirm it as you name the old self as gone.