Jonah 1:6 Awakening the Sleeper Within

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the ship as your outward circumstance, the sleeper as your dormant self. The shipmaster’s challenge is your first invitation to awaken the I AM within. To arouse and call upon thy God is to assume that awareness is already active, that your inner God is listening and ready to think upon you. Fear of perishing is merely a thought-form; you dissolve it by choosing a higher reality in which you are held by divine presence. This is not begging for mercy but recognizing that God is the I AM here and now. When you act from this inner posture, you revise the scene: you rise in consciousness, you call, and you feel the answer as certainty, not plea. The inner movement—arouse, call, believe—becomes the wind that fills the sails of your life. In that moment, the ship’s peril becomes a symbol of your old limitation dissolving under the light of awareness. God within thinks upon you as you think upon It, and the threat recedes into a new sense of guidance and safety.