Neville Goddard on Psalms 42:1-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 42 in context

Scripture Focus

1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Psalms 42:1-4

Biblical Context

The psalm expresses the soul's deep thirst for God, likening it to a hart panting for water, and recalls past worship. It voices sorrow over God's perceived absence and the longing to appear before God, contrasting current distress with remembered praise.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's verse-work, the hart becomes your I AM—awareness waking to itself. The soul's thirst is not for an external temple but for the living God within your own consciousness. Remembered worship points you inward; the 'house of God' is the inner sanctuary you can enter at any moment. The tears are signals of sleep in awareness, not evidence of separation. You can awaken by revision: declare, I am now in the living God; I am where God is. Refuse to identify with lack and let the question 'Where is thy God?' dissolve as you hold the truth of presence. The inner temple is not a distant building but the ongoing reality of your awareness. As you dwell there, nourishment comes from the immediacy of God within, turning your past festival into a present, living experience rather than a memory of longing.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and, with firm conviction, declare, I am in the living God now. Feel the inner waters of awareness refresh your thirst and rest in the presence as your own.