Inner Petition of Psalms 130

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this Psalm, you are not petitioning a distant deity but awakening the I AM—your own inner awareness. The Lord whom you seek is the quiet center you are when you turn within. The question, 'If thou shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?' becomes a revelation: the old self, identified with past acts, cannot stand in the presence of an uncondemned awareness. There is forgiveness with Thee, meaning the forgiveness that comes from recognizing your unity with the divine—no separation, no guilt that survives awareness. To wait for the Lord is to rest in the realization that your image of yourself is already formed in the mind of God; waiting is the discipline of maintaining the inner decree until outer life mirrors your inner state. Thus petition becomes a discipline of state-keeping: you revise the identity that fears judgment and actively assume the end of mercy, safety, and worth. When you dwell in that assumption, the external world begins to rearrange to fit the inner word you have planted. The Psalm invites you to live as the one who has already received what you ask for, through the imagination that is the ground of all reality.