Inner Friends of Psalm 38

Neville's Inner Vision

All the externals in this psalm are but a mirror of inner state. When the line speaks of lovers and friends aloof from my sore, and kin afar, it is not bodies parted but consciousness separated from its own hurt by belief. The I AM, your living awareness, is never absent; it simply allows you to experience abandonment to reveal what you truly are. The enemies who lay snares and the mischievous talk are thoughts and narratives arising in the mind, not outside powers. They form from fear-educated images you projected from a consciousness conditioned by lack. The cure is not to chase people or defend yourself, but to shift the state that projects them. By assuming the end, you realize you are surrounded by the security and companionship of your own inner circle, the unity of God within you. Persist in the feeling that the I AM is with you, and the sense of isolation dissolves as life reflects your inner peace.