Neville Goddard on Psalms 22:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 22 in context

Scripture Focus

1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

2O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

Psalms 22:1-2

Biblical Context

The Psalmist voices a felt separation from God, crying out day and night and sensing no answer. Yet the verse hints at a longing for intimate communion that is always possible in consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

View the verse as a map of your own inner weather. What you call abandonment is not God fleeing, but your attention momentarily believing distance exists between the I AM and the world. The opening cry is the voice of awareness awakening to itself, a signal that you are shifting from identification with lack to recognition of presence. In truth, God is the I AM that hears you and that you are, not something outside your center. The day and night cries are simply movements of consciousness seeking alignment with a constant truth: you are always heard by the presence that you are. Do not fear the sensation of forsakenness; use it as a prompt to revise your assumption. Return to the premise that you are the presence that knows and is known, the one who calls and is answered by the very act of awareness. As you hold this inner shift, the sense of distance recedes and a steadier felt presence emerges.

Practice This Now

Assume the presence now by declaring I am present and heard. Feel the warmth of awareness in your chest and rest in the sense that you are always attended.