Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 4:38-39 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 4 in context

Scripture Focus

38And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

39And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

2 Kings 4:38-39

Biblical Context

Elisha returns to Gilgal during a famine. The prophets prepare a pot of pottage, but a man unknowingly taints it with wild gourds.

Neville's Inner Vision

Take the scene as a map of your own inner life. The famine is your current lack of awareness, a crust of limitation in the state you take as real. The great pot is the inner process by which you turn imagined stimuli into life. The wild gourds are not edible truths but misidentified beliefs—thoughts that masquerade as nourishment. When the cook waters down the pot with these unrecognized ingredients, the stew becomes dangerous to the very ones you claim to serve. The line 'they knew them not' points to the moment you mistake fear or fancy for appetite. The remedy is simple: assume a new potency within the I AM, revise the inner scene, and feel it as already true. See the prophets eating the stew as your desires fulfilled, your sense of lack dissolved by the awareness that imagination creates reality. Providence flows from within; your awareness is the steward that chooses what goes into the pot and what stays out.