Neville Goddard on Psalms 107:10-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 107 in context

Scripture Focus

10Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

12Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

13Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

Psalms 107:10-14

Biblical Context

The passage describes people in darkness and bondage due to rebellion, who cry to the LORD and are saved, as their chains are broken and they are drawn from shadow into light.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this psalm, the darkness and bondage describe a state of consciousness, not a physical prison. The afflicted are those who mislay the Word of God as a distant law, binding themselves with iron of fear through labor and complaint. Yet salvation comes when the heart cries to the LORD—the I AM—recognizing its own power to wake and reorganize itself. The rescue is an inner act: a renewal of perception that dissolves the shadow of death and breaks the bands asunder by a single assumption. When you assume the feeling of your right as the living Word, you walk out of the dungeon of limitation. You do not seek rescue from outside; you turn inward and declare, 'I am the salvation, I am the light, I am free.' The cords drop as consciousness shifts to the truth of your unity with God. Thus, their deliverance mirrors your own waking from belief into awareness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and assume the state of freedom as your present fact. Feel the I AM releasing every constraint and see the bands break asunder.