Neville Goddard on Psalms 14:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 14 in context

Scripture Focus

3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

Psalms 14:3-4

Biblical Context

Many in the psalm have turned aside and become filthy, showing there is none who does good. It also describes workers of iniquity who oppress the people and fail to call on the LORD.

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the outward scene is but a mirror of inner habit. When I forget the I AM, I declare a world of 'they' who have gone aside and call it truth; I identify with the powerless and suffer the sting of oppression, believing I am defined by what I fear. The phrase 'they are all gone aside' reveals not a judgment upon others but a realization that my own consciousness has wandered from alignment with the I AM and with goodness. The workers of iniquity are the restless thoughts, the untrusting moods, the appetite for separation that eats at my peace 'as bread' when I fail to call upon the LORD within. The antidote is a turning of attention from the scene to the one Presence—my own awareness, the I AM. In that turning, the illusion of two powers dissolves; purity and integrity are not earned from without but claimed as the nature of the I AM within me. When I dwell in that consciousness, the so-called depravity loses its power and a new covenant of harmony emerges.