Refuge Within: Israel Awakening
Psalms 14:6-7 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 14 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Psalm 14:6-7 contrasts the scorn of the powerful toward the poor with the Lord as the refuge of the humble. It looks to Israel's salvation as a return from captivity, bringing joy when the Lord restores his people.
Neville's Inner Vision
Your inner drama plays out in the scene: the 'counsel of the poor' is your hidden, powerless dream of lack; the Lord being your refuge means the awareness you are never separated from life. Zion is the center of consciousness where God sits as I AM; when you imagine salvation coming from Zion, you are not waiting for an external event—you are turning your attention within. Exile and captivity symbolize your sense of being bound by fear, lack, or limitation. As you shift your attention to the Lord in you, the captivity is undone; Jacob, the mind that contends with itself, rejoices, and Israel, the whole inner man, becomes glad. In Neville's terms, life is not happening to you; you are imagining it into being through the I AM you are conscious of. The "refuge" is the steady, unshakable awareness that you are already in possession of fullness, now. The redemption described is a psychological awakening: the moment you accept 'I AM' as your reality, the external scenes mirror your inner union.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, breathe in 'I AM,' and feel the place within you where refuge dwells becoming your entire horizon. Then revise any sense of captivity by affirming, 'Salvation is now; I am free in this consciousness.'
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