Neville Goddard on Psalms 88:1-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 88 in context

Scripture Focus

1O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

2Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

3For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

4I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

5Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.

Psalms 88:1-7

Biblical Context

Psalm 88:1-7 presents a lament of deep distress, a sense of isolation, and a desperate cry to God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your cry in Psalm 88 is not a plea to some distant power but a turning of attention inside. The psalmist speaks from a state of darkness—the pit of isolation, near the grave—but in the Neville mode these lines reveal a conditioning of mind, not a failure of fate. The grave is a belief, the wrath a wave of thought; the I AM remains untouched by the scene. When you accept that God is the I AM within, you stop identifying with the pit and awaken to the presence that never forsakes you. The only salvation described is a shift of consciousness from fear to recognition: the cry is heard, the ear inclined, yet peace arises as you acknowledge, here and now, that you are in the realm of Spirit. By imagining yourself as one with the I AM, you reverse the sense of separation; the darkness yields to light because the mind changes its assumptions, and life follows the inner state.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and declare, I AM, right here, the sole reality. Feel the inner presence steady you, and revise any 'this is my fate' thought to 'I am saved now in the presence of God within'.