Gethsemane Within: Watchful Prayer

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the scene as a stage in your mind where a crisis of choice presses upon your will. The sorrow and the cup are not outside events but signals of your inner state moving toward a threshold. When Jesus says Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee, he is illuminating you: the source of power is inside your I AM, not in circumstances. The request to take away this cup is your human plea; the deeper action is surrender—aligning your will with the divine which you already are. The disciples' sleepy reaction mirrors your own tendency to defer watchfulness to another moment; but you can revise the scene now: refuse the smallness of fear and see the hour as the exact moment to stand in the consciousness that conquers it. Practice the habit of watching and praying—not as external ritual but as persistent inner attention to your state. In this light, the hour is come to affirm that the spring of life is your being, and the tale of betrayal becomes simply a change in belief, not a verdict on you. The inner Jesus shows that faith is readiness, and the flesh need only be remembered as a persuadable habit, not a prison.