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MysterySaturday, December 10, 2005
Matthew 17:7-9 Jesus "shown like the sun." His clothes turned bright white. Moses and Elijah, dead for centuries, appeared and talked with him. Unexpectedly a cloud appeared and a voice spoke from it: "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!" Fishermen just aren't used to these mystery moments. Me either. Not even in my dreams do these things happen. What are we supposed to think? Jesus says, "Don't be afraid." He touches us calmly. He says, "Don't tell anybody," which he said another way another time: "Don't throw your pearls to the swine." If you weren't there to see it, you wouldn't believe it either. The disciples are just getting up off the ground when Jesus says, "You can tell people after I've been raised from the dead." There's another bombshell. Jesus knows he's going to die, and he expects to be resurrected. Death comes to every man. But resurrection doesn't. The disciples haven't seen the resurrection of Lazarus yet, and up to this point they have seen Jesus as a man - an amazing man, but not a man-God. When I discover Jesus' divinity I experience my own transfiguration, as did the disciples. Life changes forever and for the better when I have a hero whose words I believe when he says, "I am the way, I am the truth, I am life." The kingdom of God has arrived, and I can walk in through its gates today. Right now. Where else would I want to be? Jesus, you are amazing. You are who you say you are. You prove it over and over. What can we say? Thank you. |
Called Jesus' "transfiguration," this is a most mysterious moment of the New Testament. Jesus took his disciples on a climb to the top of a high mountain. There some very surprising things occurred.