Inner Calling by the Sea

Neville's Inner Vision

Here the scene is not about geography but about states of consciousness. The sea is your inner vastness; the nets are attachments to a former sense of self; the fishermen are the man-made habits that identify you with a world you think you must master. When Jesus says Follow me, he is saying: awaken to a higher state of awareness and permit your previous identity to vanish in the light of that call. The disciples do not bargain or qualify the request; they answer from a deep inner assurance, and in that instant their vocation shifts from fishing for sustenance to fishing for souls. The phrase I will make you fishers of men denotes not project work in the world alone, but the inner act of drawing life toward greater consciousness. Their obedience is faithfulness to an inner imperative—the I AM behind appearances—rather than to a fear-based plan. As you entertain this call in imagination, you begin to revise your sense of who you are and what you are for. The outer event mirrors your inner acceptance, and you start living as a conduit for transformation.