Neville Goddard on Psalms 85:5-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 85 in context

Scripture Focus

5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

7Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

Psalms 85:5-7

Biblical Context

The psalm asks God not to stay angry and to revive His people so they may rejoice; it also asks for mercy and for salvation.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, this psalm is not a plea to an external deity so much as a turning of your own consciousness toward the state of revival. Anger is the old, fixed sentiment you have believed about yourself; the cry, Wilt thou be angry forever? is the awareness that you have identified with separation. The revival spoken of is not a calendar event but a renewal of your inner atmosphere, a shift in feeling from constraint to freedom, from despair to the rejoicing of the soul in the presence of the I AM. Mercy and salvation are not distant favors but the immediate quality of awareness you choose to dwell in. When you imagine God as your own consciousness and address it as I AM, you invite a restart of your entire experience. The verse invites you to align with the assurance that your inner heaven is already here, awaiting your admission through inward conviction and feeling.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes; assume you are already revived, feeling the joy and mercy as your present state. Repeat 'I AM revived; mercy is here' until the sensation of salvation becomes your real, lived consciousness.