Hilltop Provisions for the Way

2 Samuel 16:1-2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 16 in context

Scripture Focus

1And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
2And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.
2 Samuel 16:1-2

Biblical Context

David is met by Ziba who brings bread, fruit, and wine for the king's household and his traveling companions. The gifts symbolize care for the weary and the sustenance provided on the journey.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your life is the hill you climb in consciousness. David represents the I AM—awareness—moving through the topography of your present state. Ziba is the inner messenger who carries the means by which you sustain yourself: bread for the body, fruit and raisins for the senses, wine for the aliveness that keeps going when wilderness stretches ahead. The two asses symbolize the faculties you lend to your journey—memory, imagination, supplier of resources—loaded and ready. The gifts are not external to you; they are the vibration of willingness and insistence that you provide for the whole of your being. When you ask, 'What do these gifts mean?' you hear the answer within: your inner kingdom recognizes and calls forth provision for the king (your true self) and for the wanderers (your beliefs and hopes) who need energy. If you dwell in the assumption that such provision is always available and that you and your inner household are sustained, your outer path will reflect this revelation—more vitality, less want, a sense of leadership by inner abundance.

Practice This Now

Assume, now, that the supplies are flowing to your inner household; close your eyes and feel the bread nourishing you, the wine reviving your spirit, the fruit refreshing your mind. Let that feeling remain for a few breaths as if it already is.

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