Softened Heart, Darkened Path

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville Goddard angle, this passage asks you to recognize that the 'God' and the 'Almighty' are inner states, not external judgments. The line 'God maketh my heart soft' is a recognition that your awareness can be softened into gentleness by a higher consciousness resident within. The 'troubling' is the inner pressure of imagination, a movement that pries open rigid habit and reveals what you truly are. When Job says he was not cut off before the darkness, he affirms that even in the darkest psychological moment your sense of 'I AM' remains intact; darkness cannot erase consciousness that knows itself as I AM. Rather than an attack from without, the trials are the inner invitation to revise your assumptions, to endure until the inner light emerges. The verse invites a practice: refuse to disbelieve the inner light when turmoil arises; instead, lean into the awareness that you are the immanent I AM, and let the troubling thoughts soften into clarity and faith.