Neville Goddard on Psalms 39:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 39 in context

Scripture Focus

5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

Psalms 39:5-7

Biblical Context

Life is brief and human effort is vanity. The psalmist chooses to place hope in the Lord rather than in riches.

Neville's Inner Vision

When the verse speaks of days as a handbreadth, it speaks to the width of your awareness, not time. You are not imprisoned by clocks but freed by a shifted state of consciousness. To call life vanity is to identify with surface status — wealth, prestige, external appearance — which are always uncertain and ultimately gathering no permanent wealth. The inner wealth is the I AM within, the living presence that perceives and sustains all. The cry, what wait I for? my hope is in thee, invites you to cease waiting on an external future and align your assumption with the living God within you. Providence is the law of your own imagination when you claim it as present. Practice, therefore: assume the state of being already provided for, feel the reassurance of the I AM, and let imagination do the gathering. In this shift, wisdom dawns, humility rises, and your life reflects inner abundance rather than outer scarcity.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In quiet, assume the I AM as present now; declare that your days are measured by awareness, not time, and revise any lack by imagining the inner Lord providing as already real.