Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 21:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 21 in context

Scripture Focus

4And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

5And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

6So the priest gave him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but the shewbread, that was taken from before the LORD, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

1 Samuel 21:4-6

Biblical Context

David asks the priest for bread; there is no common bread, only hallowed bread, and he notes the vessels are holy and the bread may be regarded as common for the moment.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner scene is the sanctuary where nourishment is always ready. The outer world may call its bread common, but in the kingdom of your awareness there is a sacred loaf on the table, and it is sanctified by purpose when you align with I AM. The priest represents the still, listening mind that can offer the holy bread even when appearances declare scarcity. David, the awake state, asserts that the vessels (habits, forms) are holy and that experience can be fed by a belief in supply that transcends ordinary rules. The shewbread taken from before the LORD on the day it is renewed is a symbol of present-tense creation: you feed on what you already are by a deliberate assumption. When you accept that your needs are provided by your own consciousness, the boundary between sacred and common dissolves, for you become the source of life through imagination. You are invited to see that nourishment follows awareness, not condition, and that the I AM within you is always the bread on the table of your mind.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume your required nourishment is already laid out in your inner temple. Feel the bread of presence warming your mind and declare, I AM, supply now.