Neville Goddard on Jonah 4:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jonah 4 in context

Scripture Focus

6And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

7But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

Jonah 4:6-7

Biblical Context

Jonah is comforted by a divine shadow that eases his grief. Then the same shadow withers, revealing the changing nature of inner relief.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jonah's gourd is not a literal plant but a state of consciousness, a temporary shade the mind evokes to ease grief. The I AM within delivers that shadow to relieve pain, and Jonah responds with gladness because relief has come. Yet the same inner power permits a worm to arise and wither the gourd, not to condemn, but to wake the soul to dependence on forms. In this inner drama, events are movements of consciousness: a shadow appears, then disappears, so you may learn to seek the unshakable source—the I AM—rather than transient coverings. Your aim is to notice when you cling to a pleasant provision and revise your stance by affirming, I am the I AM, the source of all shade and light. When you realize the outer canopy is symbolic, you become free to dwell in the awareness that you are forever provisioned from within by the one Life that never falters.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume I am the I AM, the shadow that never fades. Feel that truth as real for a minute; if a loss arises, revise it by declaring Provision is always present in the I AM within me.