Neville Goddard on Luke 21:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Luke 21 in context

Scripture Focus

3And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:

4For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.

Luke 21:3-4

Biblical Context

Jesus honors the poor widow who gave all she had, contrasting with the rich who gave from abundance; true value lies in total sacrifice, not the amount.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within every outward gesture of giving lies a movement of inner consciousness. The widow’s penury is not a lack of coin, but a shift of attention: she casts in all the living she had as if the entire self were a living sacrifice to the God within. The temple Jesus speaks of is your own awareness, and the offerings are the choices you make in belief and attention. The others cast from abundance, maintaining their sense of self by exterior sums; but she reveals the truth that true worship is the willingness to empty the purse of ego and lend your entire being to the divine fund. When you imagine you have nothing, you are, in truth, releasing the living you into the I AM that sustains you. The I AM within never runs dry; it multiplies through the act of trust. So the widow's act is not about money but about state: wealth is a state of consciousness, not a number. If you want real change, assume you have already given all to God within, feel the release, and let the sense of abundance rise from within as your new reality.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, picture yourself as the widow, placing all you have into the divine treasury, and feel the I AM within you recognizing it as enough. Then revise the belief of lack to 'I am completely supplied by God within'.