Neville Goddard on Isaiah 64:5-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Isaiah 64 in context

Scripture Focus

5Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.

6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

8But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

9Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Isaiah 64:5-9

Biblical Context

The verses confess humanity's sin and sense of separation, then acknowledge God as our Father who shapes us like clay, inviting a turning toward mercy.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner awareness encounters the glad worker of righteousness and the confession that we have sinned, yet that very confession signals the movement of God-consciousness within. The line 'But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter' declares the truth that you are not separate from the One I AM, but being molded by it. The 'filthy rags' of self-righteousness and the vanishing leaves are the shifting appearances of a mind waking to its divine condition. When you call upon the name within and accept the potter's touch, you release the old sense of being hidden or consumed by error and embrace a renewed sense of identity as God’s handiwork. The remedy is present as a shift in consciousness: forgive, revise, and dwell in the I AM that animates you. Forgiveness is not a verdict but a state of awareness restored to its source.

Practice This Now

Assume the state, 'I am the clay in the potter's hand'; feel the inner Father shaping me now and rest in the feeling of being forgiven and wholly formed by God.