Inner Halting and Confession

Psalms 38:17-18 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read Psalms 38 in context

Scripture Focus

17For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
18For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
Psalms 38:17-18

Biblical Context

The psalmist speaks of readiness to pause and continual sorrow. He resolves to acknowledge sin and feel remorse.

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe how the words fix attention on an inner state: readiness to halt the outward run of the mind, and sorrow that stays before the eye of awareness. In Neville’s world, this is not penitence as punishment, but a turning of the mind’s inner weather. The I AM, your pure awareness, meets a misalignment of thought and feeling—iniquity felt as a tug of guilt—and chooses to declare it, not to condemn, but to bring it into the light of consciousness. Confession becomes a revision, a deliberate shift of belief from separation to wholeness. The sorrow is transformed into attentive awareness; the act of saying “I will declare mine iniquity” becomes the moment you acknowledge the thought you entertained and release its charge by consenting to a higher state. Grace arrives not from external judgment but as your own present sense of being seen, understood, and held by love. The timing is yours: halt, revise, and rest in the awareness that you are already complete in I AM.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes and declare, 'I am the I AM aware of every misstep, and I forgive myself now.' Feel it real as if the lack of grace dissolves and you are already whole.

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