Neville Goddard on Jonah 4:10-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 4 in context

Scripture Focus

10Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

11And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

Jonah 4:10-11

Biblical Context

Jonah 4:10-11 contrasts a prophet's pity for a plant with God's mercy toward Nineveh, inviting us to see mercy as a global, inner state rather than a private preference.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of this story as a mirror for your inner world. The Lord within speaks through Jonah’s grievance, showing that your concern for a temporary gourd betrays a narrow state of consciousness. Nineveh—the great city with its many people—is the vast field of possibilities and dispositions you carry in your own being. When you identify with a single pet partiality, you momentarily forget that all life is the same awareness wearing many faces. The premise of God's mercy here is not a concession to Nineveh's needs but a revelation of your true condition: awareness that refuses to deny any portion of itself. If you will enter the scene and feel the truth that the I AM can spare the city by simply recognizing it as your own interior climate, you release judgment and invite reconciliation. Your inner prophet can rejoice as you realize that mercy expands when you live from the assumption that all are included in the same life, and that your future is not secured by one plant, but by the integrity of your entire being.