Neville Goddard on Psalms 88:3-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 88 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Psalms 88:3-5

Biblical Context

The verses voice a soul overwhelmed with troubles, drawing near to the grave, feeling forgotten, and cut off from strength and divine remembrance.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this Psalm, the outward image of near-death and abandonment is a projection of a mind convinced by trouble that it stands apart from the I AM. The dead and the pit symbolize inner states of consciousness that believe they are separate from God, weak, and forgotten. Yet the I AM—presence and awareness—remains the essential you. The psalmist’s cry is a call to awaken to a different identification: not with the body’s fear, but with the affirmed identity as life and consciousness itself. When you declare, 'I am the I AM present now,' you reverse the scene from fatal separations to intimate union. The memory of God is not a distant event but the recognition that you are consciousness within which God dwells, sustaining every breath. By residing as that I AM, you render the grave scene powerless, and the speaker is returned to life, remembered and held by divine presence. The shift is not about changing external facts but reasserting your inner state of divine memory and vitality.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling of I AM here, now. Revise the psalm’s scene in your mind so the speaker is remembered by God and lifted from the pit into living presence.