Neville Goddard on Psalms 90:3-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 90 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

Psalms 90:3-6

Biblical Context

Psalm 90:3-6 speaks of God turning man to destruction and the fleeting nature of human life. It uses the image of morning grass that grows, flourishes, and withers.

Neville's Inner Vision

Seekers often watch time as the tyrant that marks our days, yet Psalm 90:3-6 invites us to see time as a dream seen by the I AM. God does not turn 'man' into something separate; rather, man is the consciousness that believes in separation and then experiences destruction as a movement of thought. When the psalmist says, Return, ye children of men, he is not calling for a future act but for a return to the awareness of the One Life. In God's sight a thousand years are but yesterday; the long march through day and night is simply a shifting line in consciousness. The flood that carries them away is the rolling wave of belief; the grass that grows in the morning and withers in the evening is the picture of a thought-form born and dissolved within awareness. Wake to the fact that you are the I AM, timeless and untouched by the hours. By recognizing that renewal is the very nature of your present I AM, you step out of destruction into living reality here and now.