Inner Judgment and Godward Life

Neville's Inner Vision

From a Neville Goddard perspective, Psalm 9:17 is not about punishment meted out to others, but about the states of consciousness you inhabit. The wicked are those who have temporarily forgotten their true I AM and therefore live in separation from the divine presence. Hell represents a claustrophobic inner climate—fear, lack, and the feeling that life is failing to respond—an inner room built by a mind that has forgotten God. The line about nations that forget God points to collective mental atmospheres formed when communities choose to ignore the source of life within. The keen reader learns that these conditions are self imposed by alignment, not a vending of fate from above. The remedy is not punishment but inward revision: as you realize that you are the I AM, you dissolve the memory of separation and reclaim God-awareness in every thought, choice, and action. When you assume that presence now, the sense of others forgetting God dissolves too, and your world aligns with abundance, justice, and fidelity to the divine within.