“Master it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters – one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. (He did not know what he was saying)” Luke 9:33

No one quite knows what the transfiguration was all about, but Peter, James, and John got to witness it on the mountaintop together. Can you imagine seeing Moses and Elijah, two of the greatest prophets of Israel’s history before your eyes? Peter thought it was so awesome that they needed to build shelters for everyone so they could stay there, but that wasn’t God’s plan. (He did not know what he was saying.) Many of us are like Peter, we have those “mountaintop” experiences where we get a taste of the majesty and glory of God and we don’t want to move. Yet, we are called to go back down the mountain renewed and ready for God’s service. This is God’s calling for all of us, because there are others, just like the demon possessed boy who need to experience God’s love and goodness too.

 

Devotion by Jeff Smith