Awakening Lazarus Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, Lazarus in this scene is your inner life buried under sleep of fear and habit. When Jesus speaks of sleep he names a state of consciousness that forgets itself as life. The disciples hear death with the ears of sense, yet the invitation is to believe beyond appearance. Death here is not punishment but a threshold of belief, a chance to turn the attention inward until the old self is ready to yield its crown. Jesus comes as the I AM in you, the awakened presence that calls what is asleep to awaken. Lazarus is dead only to the old mind; to the one who hears this invitation he is very much alive, waiting to answer with faith. Your task is to let belief act as the power that revives, not as fear that negotiates with it. When Jesus says let us go unto him, you are invited to move your inner awareness toward the desired life, even if the outer seems reluctant. The purpose is to reveal what you already are resurrection here and now.