Inner Psalm: Peaceful Tongues

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the Neville Goddard frame, the distress and the caller are not external adversaries but states of consciousness. Crying to the LORD is the moment you turn your attention to the I AM—the awareness that you actually are. Deliver my soul from lying lips becomes delivering your self-concept from thoughts that depict you as separated from truth and peace. The 'false tongue' is not a person but an inner narration that keeps your mind bound to conflict. The question, 'What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?' invites you to revise the belief that speech—your words or others’—defines you. See the 'sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper' as sharpened thoughts that sting; you can reinterpret them as the heat that purifies your speech rather than harms you. 'Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar' signals wandering in thought that hates peace; you choose a different residency: the quiet center of peace. 'I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war' reveals that your spoken word shapes your reality; by affirming 'I am for peace' now, the outer world mirrors that state.