Neville Goddard on Psalms 22:12-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 22 in context

Scripture Focus

12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Psalms 22:12-14

Biblical Context

The psalmist describes being surrounded by fierce enemies, likened to bulls and a roaring lion, and feeling utterly spent, with bones out of joint and a heart melted.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this Psalm, the outer assault—enemies closing in, the body overwhelmed—reveals a state of consciousness you have agreed is real. The bulls and the lion are not outside forces but thoughts and fears you have allowed to govern you. I am the awareness that witnesses each sensation; I am the I AM, unshaken, the source from which all feeling springs. When you refuse to identify with the pain or the sense of being poured out, you begin to revise the inner condition. Speak the revised truth: I AM intact, I AM whole, I AM united with the living presence that animates all. The bones and the heart soften as the mind anchors in this immutable reality, and endurance arises not from fighting the world but from inhabiting the state that makes the world answer to you. Hope is the natural result of returning, again and again, to the I AM at the center. The Psalm becomes a practice: awareness first, then the world conforms to your inner truth.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and repeat: I AM the I AM; these bulls dissolve and the roaring fades; I rest in the calm witness of my true nature. Feel that presence now until it occupies your entire sense of being.