Neville Goddard on Psalms 90:5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Psalms 90 in context

Scripture Focus

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

Psalms 90:5

Biblical Context

Psalm 90:5 portrays life as fleeting, carried away like a flood and a sleep. In the morning, renewal appears like fresh grass.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your experience of time, you imagine, flows like a flood; but in truth you are the I AM, the awake presence that carries appearances as you identify with them. The 'grass' that rises each morning is the revival of your inner state when you rest attention in the stable, unchanging awareness that defines you. The verse warns that they vanish with the flood and sleep; that is the ordinary dream of life, the belief that change governs you. When you imagine yourself as the timeless witness, the flood dissolves and the night fades, and grass appears anew in the morning of your mind. Each dawn is a fresh implication of your inner renewal, because you, not external events, renew your state. Your future becomes the next awakening to I AM, not a string of changing circumstances. Practice: refuse identification with fluctuating appearances; enter the feeling of I AM as the constant, and revise your sense of now to that eternal-present renewal.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, close your eyes, and declare, 'I AM the I AM that carries away every flood and awakens the grass of a new day.' Feel it in your chest; breathe with it until the sense of renewal is present, and let the morning grass grow in your mind for a few minutes.