The Inner Undertaking

Isaiah 38:13-14 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Isaiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

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.
14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
Isaiah 38:13-14

Biblical Context

The verses depict a night of fear and lament, as the speaker feels crushed and pleads for deliverance. The outward imagery mirrors an inner conviction that life is in peril.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the I AM, the lion breaking bones is not a tyrant but a misreading of power. In the Neville Goddard sense, the fear of death is a state of consciousness that imagines separation from its source. The cry 'undertake for me' is the soul's call to reassign power from the outward world to the inner God within. The 'mourning as a dove' and the 'eyes fail' are features of an over-identified mind; they fade when you stop looking outward and begin to imagine boldly from the end. You do not wage war on the lion; you re-identify as the fearless I AM, the constant awareness that underwrites every situation. The night yields when the practitioner revises the premise: I am always delivered; the impression of oppression is only a ripple on the sea of consciousness. When you feel the reality of your desired state health, safety, restoration here and now, the inner movement shifts and the outer scene answers accordingly. Undertake now for yourself by assuming the state as already true and letting the feeling of it fill every cell.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and assume the feeling of complete deliverance. Repeat 'I am delivered; I am the I AM' until the body relaxes and the mind yields to the inner fact.

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