Neville Goddard on Psalms 101:2-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 101 in context

Scripture Focus

2I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

3I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

4A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Psalms 101:2-4

Biblical Context

The psalmist vows to live wisely with a perfect heart, guarding his eyes from wicked images and avoiding the company of the crooked. The focus is inner integrity lived as conduct within the mind's own house.

Neville's Inner Vision

Psalm 101:2-4 speaks to a person who refuses to live by impulse, choosing instead to enroll consciousness in a perfect heart. In Neville Goddard's language, the outer behavior is the overflow of your inner state: you align with the I AM, and the room of your mind becomes pure, alert, and undefiled by visual temptation. The wicked thing before mine eyes is a mental image you consent to by attention; you do not condemn it, you renounce it by choosing another thought, another image that reflects integrity. When you say, A froward heart shall depart from me, you are declaring that the old stubborn self dissolves under the right assumption that you are already perfect in your inner house. The moment you stop knowing or entertaining wickedness, you leave it behind, and your world reorganizes around this new state. The presence you seek comes not by time but by inner shift; as you dwell in the perfect heart, your life follows into alignment.

Practice This Now

Assume the state: I walk in my inner house with a perfect heart, and the I AM fills every room. Refuse to entertain any image of wickedness and replace it with a living vision of purity.