Beauty Upon Our Hands
Psalms 90:17 - A Neville Goddard interpretation
Read Psalms 90 in context
Scripture Focus
Biblical Context
The verse asks for God's beauty to rest on us and for the work of our hands to be established by that divine presence. It seeks divine favor to ground our labor in God’s empowering presence.
Neville's Inner Vision
Let me reinterpret: The beauty of the LORD upon us is the I AM's active favor—an inner atmosphere you can enter now. When I say 'Upon us,' I mean 'within me'—the awareness that God is right there, attentive to every thought and deed. The 'work of our hands' is not merely toil but the fruit of conscious intention—our projects, our relationships, our daily acts. To 'establish thou it' is not a command to God but a recognition that the moment I align with divine I AM, the inner state births outer order. Therefore, I meditate on the inner Presence as the source of courage, clarity, and persistence. I imagine the day as if it is already completed under that grace; I revise any sense of limitation; I feel the reality of my ends already accomplished by imagination's power. The verse invites me to dwell in the feeling that my life is being continually set in order by the God within, and that I, through that I AM, plant the seed of every enterprise.
Practice This Now
Close your eyes and feel the I AM resting on you; repeat, 'The beauty of the LORD is upon me, and my work is established.' Let that conviction settle and hold, acting from that inner certainty.
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