Neville Goddard on Psalms 90:1-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 90 in context

Scripture Focus

1Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

3Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

10The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

11Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

13Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

14O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

17And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalms 90:1-17

Biblical Context

Psalm 90:1-17 presents God as our timeless dwelling and invites a meditation on mortality and wisdom.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Psalm, God is the I AM that dwells within you through all generations. The mountains and the earth are not distant places but inner dispositions you have not yet inhabited. To awaken wisdom is to re-enter your own consciousness and claim that you are eternally in God’s house. When the psalm speaks of days and years, it points to your mental time to be rearranged by inner awareness. A thousand years are but a moment in your awareness, and this realization can temper anger and wrath by turning to the mercy that is always present. Teach yourself to number your days by counting each moment as a doorway to wisdom. Return to the I AM, the source of your being, and feel the divine joy as your habitual atmosphere. The beauty of the LORD resting upon you is not a future event but your present state when you align with God’s activity in your mind and let it establish the work of your hands.