Neville Goddard on Psalms 90:10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 90 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Psalms 90:10

Biblical Context

The verse presents life as a finite span—threescore years and ten, or fourscore with strain—ending quickly, with labor and sorrow, then we fly away.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within you, the days of years are not clocks but the mood of the mind. The 'threescore years and ten' marks the ordinary self that believes in time; when you 'by reason of strength' widen it to fourscore you do so by a strong, yet still-separate, imagination. But labor and sorrow follow only when you identify with such a temporal self. The true life is the I AM, the constant awareness behind every thought and sensation; this is timeless. If you awaken to that I AM and revise your sense of self, you will see the years thin or expand as your inner state dictates, not as a decree of fate. The psalm invites you to shift from struggle with time to ruling time with consciousness. Your future does not appear under the sun; it unfolds as you claim and feel the end of limitation here and now, in the felt reality of being.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the state of timeless I AM; feel that not a single moment limits you. Declare, 'I am timeless now,' and dwell in that felt reality until it replaces the old tempo.