In order for man to understand who the Son of God is, He gave a brief encounter to a few of the chosen so that they may comprehend the gift that He was about to give, the life, death and the resurrection of His only Son. On the day of the Transfiguration of Jesus, God shows to us His full understanding of what He created in us. Through our imperfections and our sins He knows our short comings. He knows that man can not absorb the magnificence and the meaning of this gift. So, He chose to provide a clear picture so that man can see the truth. That Jesus is the Son of God, our future and our Savior. He knew the difficulties we have in understanding the Spirits call and our inability to accept fully the teachings that come from the Spirit. So He chose a visual process to gain our attention to show us the truth. As humans, our nature is to only believe in what we see. Until our eyes actually see and or our hands actually touch we choose to be skeptics. God knows this is about His creation and that is why He provides a visual for those He has chosen to carry the message forward for all to hear and for all to accept. Jesus is the Son of God the Father, Jesus is our Savior, the gift of light, our salvation and the example of the life that is to come.
Today, we can still see that which the apostles saw. We first need to shed ourselves from the trappings of traditional worldly views and open our hearts and minds to see the glory of His gift in each of us. Jesus is with us. Each day He brings a visual and physical presence of His life. We just don’t see it for what it is. We give credit to those things that are more tangible, more accepted and easily explained as being from the world. But, they are not. In every action of love, every action of care and every action of forgiveness, God shows us His Son. It is hard to believe and it is harder to accept that Christ resides inside each of us in both a spiritual and physical sense. We are afraid of the truth. We, with our worldly view refuse to see it as such. For if this is true, our accountability for our actions, decisions and life may be unbearable for us to reconcile. But if we have true faith, then we know that His love, grace and forgiveness will save us from ourselves. If we have the courage and strength to look beyond this world then we will see the light of the Son of God in those around us.
Today, we can still see that which the apostles saw. We first need to shed ourselves from the trappings of traditional worldly views and open our hearts and minds to see the glory of His gift in each of us. Jesus is with us. Each day He brings a visual and physical presence of His life. We just don’t see it for what it is. We give credit to those things that are more tangible, more accepted and easily explained as being from the world. But, they are not. In every action of love, every action of care and every action of forgiveness, God shows us His Son. It is hard to believe and it is harder to accept that Christ resides inside each of us in both a spiritual and physical sense. We are afraid of the truth. We, with our worldly view refuse to see it as such. For if this is true, our accountability for our actions, decisions and life may be unbearable for us to reconcile. But if we have true faith, then we know that His love, grace and forgiveness will save us from ourselves. If we have the courage and strength to look beyond this world then we will see the light of the Son of God in those around us.
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