Mercy From the I Am
Psalms 6:1-4 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 6 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
Psalm 6:1-4 pleads for mercy and healing in a time of deep distress, asking God to relent and deliver the soul. In Neville's frame, the Psalm reveals the inner states we experience as consciousness seeking restoration.
Neville's Inner Vision
Behold: the speaker is not petitioning a distant deity so much as turning within to the I AM, the awareness that you are. The cry 'rebuke me not in thine anger' is the inner resistance to the move of consciousness; 'have mercy' is the invitation to soften the mind. When the verse speaks of weakness and aches in the bones, it is the body of thought reacting to a belief in separation. 'How long?' becomes a personal question to your own awareness: how long will you hold the old picture of yourself as lacking? The answer in the Psalm is not external relief but the return of the self to its rightful seat of mercy, the inner deliverance that already exists as your I AM. To read it in Neville's mode is to reframe the request: you do not ask God to change; you change your state of consciousness until the imagined condition becomes your felt real. When you cry 'deliver my soul,' you are simply affirming that the I AM is the mercy that saves you from fear, awakening you to the mercy that is always present.
Practice This Now
Imaginative act: Close your eyes, assume the I AM is delivering you now; feel the relief as mercy has already entered your bones and heart.
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