![]() ![]() Genre IllumiNations Comment by frederic platel May I try my best to change those parts of my life that prevent from loving those around me and from following Jesus.Chaos and Order from IllumiNations | Written by: Gavin Greenaway I ask the Lord to be with me as I repent and believe the Good News. This week I pray that I will have the courage and humility to listen Jesus, the Beloved Son of God. you were renewed in the Spirit, so that you could become a new person who has been created by in God’s image.’ (Eph. Paul says to us when we writes to us ‘You are to put aside your old self, which belongs to your old way of life…. We too will stand with Jesus in all his glory.īut we have a few more weeks left before we can celebrate, and sing ‘alleluia, the Lord is risen.’ As much as this gospel is about Jesus being changed, Lent is also about you and I being changed and transformed. It offers us an ever so brief glimpse of what awaits us when Easter finally arrives. This moment of Transfiguration when we experience and encounter Jesus in all his glory as God’s Son is offered so as to encourage and strengthen us at this stage of journey through Lent. ![]() Truly then, he will be transfigured for all time. The sign of the cross with ashes which we received that day is long gone, but how are those promises going at this stage of Lent? I like to believe that The Transfiguration gives us a flickering moment of revelation of who Jesus will be and how we will look after the Resurrection. We made promises and pledges that we would change we would try just to be nicer to those around us and to be a more committed follower of Jesus. Perhaps when we started Lent on Ash Wednesday, we did so with great energy and optimism. God reveals to us and unveils for us Jesus’ true identity and the power of God’s Kingdom that he is about usher in through his life, death and resurrection. When he emerged from the water, a voice was heard to say, ‘This is my Son, the beloved, my favour rests on him.’ Both experiences give those with Jesus and us today a brief glimpse of Jesus from God’s point of view. (Jesus) was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such has no one earth could bleach them… then a cloud overshadowed them, and from the cloud there came a voice, This is my Son, the Beloved listen to him.’ This bears an uncanny similarity to what happened when Jesus was baptised. They see and hear something that probably both disturbed and encouraged them in equal measure. They experience Jesus in a profound and powerful way. While on the mountain with Jesus, something out of the ordinary happens to Peter, James and John. In the gospel today, Jesus is changed, transfigured on the mountain. ![]() We recall Moses meeting God on Mount Sinai, Jesus preaching the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus being crucified on Mount Calvary. The mountain is the place where God is encountered and experienced. The mountain is the place where God is revealed. The symbol of the mountain in scripture is very important. Jesus takes his three of his friends, Peter, James and John away from the market place and brings them on hike up a mountain. The gospel today is one of those ‘peak moments’ for Jesus and those who are with him. ![]() We often use the phrase ‘peak moments’ to talk about and describe important or significant experiences. ![]()
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