Neville Goddard on Isaiah 38:12-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

13I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

Isaiah 38:12-13

Biblical Context

The passage speaks of aging and life fading, with illness and the fear that the day will end the speaker.

Neville's Inner Vision

Like all Scripture in Neville's school, these lines are not about a body dying but a state of consciousness declaring: my life is a tent I can reposition in the I AM. Mine age is departed; to the mind that imagines, a tent is folded away when a new sense of self arises. The weaver's loom symbolizes the life-story I have woven and trusted as fixed; the verse's claims of cutting off and pining sickness reflect only old beliefs that time and circumstance determine me. The lion that 'breaks all my bones' is fear masquerading as fact—what ends me is the belief I am subject to a world outside my inner state. The practical truth is to assume a different premise: I AM vitality, endless life, unbound by yesterday. In that inner state, the day does not end me; it becomes a doorway to a fresh morning. The future hope is not out there but in the now, where imagination reshapes reality.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and repeat, with feeling, 'I AM vitality now,' imagining the next morning already present in your consciousness; breathe into that renewed state until it feels real.