Neville Goddard on Psalms 71:17-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 71 in context

Scripture Focus

17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

18Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Psalms 71:17-18

Biblical Context

Psalm 71:17–18 recalls that God taught the speaker since youth and, even in old age, they seek to reveal God's strength and power to the next generation.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's key of inner recognition, the Psalm is not a past event but a present state of consciousness. The speaker names God as the I AM that taught them from youth, meaning their inner awareness carried divine knowing from the beginning. The cry, 'forsake me not,' becomes a call to sustain the creative energy of awareness as one ages, not a plea for temporal protection but a revision of identity: I am the one who continues to declare and show God's wondrous works through the strength that truth assigns to me. Youth, age, memory, and testimony dissolve into a single living present—the moment in which imagination acts as the power through which generations are blessed. The 'generation to come' is simply the future expressions of your inner state, the visible effects of a consciousness that refuses to retreat. When you hold this vision, you are not aging but expanding the demonstration of divine power in every season of life.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling: you have been taught by God from your youth and remain undefeated in your present age, ready to reveal divine strength to the next generation. Sit in stillness and repeat, 'I am taught by God; I reveal His strength now.' Visualize a line of generations receiving your quiet demonstration.