Inner Presence: Pure Speech
Psalms 17:2-3 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 17 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
David asks that his words proceed from God's presence and that God sees only what is just; he confesses that God has tried his heart in the night and found nothing amiss, promising that his mouth will not transgress. This reveals a longing for inner integrity and speech in harmony with the inner law.
Neville's Inner Vision
From the Neville vantage, these lines reveal your inner decree: let your sentence proceed from the presence you call I AM. The eyes that behold equal things symbolize the inner law of justice that your own consciousness passes before it as judgment. The night visitation and testing are not external trials but the furnace of awareness that purifies feeling and motive. When the psalmist declares that nothing will be found to transgress, he is not boasting about outer perfection; he is aligning his inner state with the truth of consciousness that you inhabit. The mouth that shall not transgress is the mouth that speaks from a state of integrity, where thoughts and words are coherent with the I AM you identify as yourself. To live this, you must assume that your present inner state is already approved, that the presence is your own awareness, and that every thought or word flows from it. In that assumption, appearances reform to match the inner decree; nothing contradicts; your life bears witness to the harmony of inner and outer.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and declare: from this presence, my sentence proceeds; feel it as already true. Then revise any anxious thought to align with the I AM, letting your next speech flow from inner integrity.
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