Inner Light of Psalm 36

Neville's Inner Vision

Within these lines, the 'transgression' is not a distant act but a state of consciousness that has forgotten the fear of the I AM. The 'wicked' is a voice within you that flatters itself, telling you there is no divine standard before your eyes. When you hear 'the words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit,' understand this as the habitual self-talk that excuses harm and covers it with cleverness. He ‘deviseth mischief upon his bed’—a figure of speech for those night thoughts that set you against good, as if plans for trouble were already drafted in the mind’s quiet hours. Yet this is no accusation aimed at someone else, but a diagnosis of a mental pattern: a separation from the truth that you are always the I AM, the awareness in whom all things unfold. To reorient, dwell in the presence where humility yields to wisdom, and let your inner speech align with what is true, good, and loving. Your fear of God—not as punishment but as reverence for the divine order within—becomes your guide.