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Matthew 21:18 · World English Bible

Matthew 21:18 Meaning Now in the Morning

Now in the morning, as he returned to the city, he was hungry.

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What does Matthew 21:18 mean?

Morning is the dawning of higher awareness, the illumination rising within after the night of the lower state. Returning into the city is attention coming back down into the built-up body of habits and thoughts, the organized self a person has constructed over years, and the one who has been on the mount of raised consciousness descends again into the ordinary structure of the flesh.

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Morning is the dawning of higher awareness, the illumination rising within after the night of the lower state. Returning into the city is attention coming back down into the built-up body of habits and thoughts, the organized self a person has constructed over years, and the one who has been on the mount of raised consciousness descends again into the ordinary structure of the flesh.

The hunger is not of the stomach. It is the soul's appetite for higher substance, the craving that stirs when awareness has begun to rise and finds the old body still empty of what truly nourishes.

Morning: the dawning of higher awareness, illumination rising within City: the organized body of thoughts and habits, the built-up self a person returns to Hunger: the soul's appetite for higher substance, stirred once awareness begins to rise

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Live Matthew 21:18 today

  1. When you feel that restless hollow mid-afternoon and reach for your phone or the cupboard, pause and ask what you are actually hungry for. You do not have to fix it, just see it honestly.
  2. Tell one person something true about how you have been feeling instead of the automatic fine. The ache gets smaller when it is spoken.
  3. On the commute or the walk back into your day, let the morning clarity come with you instead of leaving it behind at the door. The ordinary hours are where it has to hold.

What are you feeding that has never once filled you?

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