Neville Goddard on Isaiah 38:9-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

9The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

10I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

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.

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 38:9-13

Biblical Context

Hezekiah records his fear and lament as his days seem cut off and he expects the gates of the grave. He speaks of not seeing the Lord in the land of the living and of life being cut off like a tent.

Neville's Inner Vision

Seen through Neville Goddard's lens, the writing is not about a king and a body dying, but about the state of consciousness that believes life ends. The writing is your inner note to yourself, the moment when you identify with a fading self rather than the I AM that is always present. The 'gates of the grave' are not a door to a literal tomb but a doorway into a limited sense of self that says, 'I shall not see the Lord in the land of the living.' The 'land of the living' is your present awareness, and the 'pining sickness' and the 'lion' that will end you are those recurring thoughts of time, decay and loss. Neville would tell you to refuse that dream; to revise the scene by stepping into the awareness that you are the I AM, the one life that cannot be cut off. In that state you imagine the end as already fulfilled—healing, vitality, and continuity now. Feel the pulse of life, speak from the living I AM, and permit the outer world to harmonize with your inward truth.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Sit quietly, assume the feeling that you are the I AM, the Life that cannot be cut off, and imagine vitality flowing through your body now. Repeat 'I am the living I AM' until the conviction settles and your world adjusts to your inner end.