Inner Life Of Isaiah 38:16-17

Isaiah 38:16-17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Isaiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

16O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
Isaiah 38:16-17

Biblical Context

Isaiah 38:16-17 speaks of the inner life and divine restoration, showing how forgiveness and mercy restore peace by turning the soul toward its true I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

These verses reveal that the life you seek resides in the I AM within you, not in external events. By these things men live—the steady conviction that consciousness is the source of all life—you recover and live anew. The bitterness of peace subsides when you recognize love toward your soul; it casts the pit of corruption behind your back as you cease rehearsing sin and instead affirm your true nature. The 'cast behind thy back' is a shift of memory, a decisive revision of your inner view that you are already whole and loved. When you rest in this truth, forgiveness becomes not a plea for mercy but a realization of your inherent oneness with God. The life of your spirit is sustained by an imagining rightly directed—do not seek salvation in the world but in the inner state that creates the world you inhabit. Your peace is the atmosphere of your consciousness, here and now, born from the recognition that you are the I AM.

Practice This Now

Practice: sit quietly, assume 'I am the life of God; my sins are behind my back,' and feel it real by imagining a warm light washing through you from front to back, leaving peace in its wake.

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