CHUKA KEN MINISTRY

The transformation of Jesus gives us the courage to accept him — and our authentic characters
A Reflection for the Feast of the transformation of the Lord

also from the pall came a voice that said, “ This is my chosen Son; hear to him. ” After the voice had spoken, Jesus was set upalone.They fell silent and didn’t at that timetell anyone what they had seen.( Lk 935- 36)

In moment’s philosophy, Jesus comes out to his dearest musketeers. It’s a profoundly particular, intimate and vulnerable disclosure that Jesus makes on the Mount of Transfiguration. What a honor it’s for us that the Gospel pens have allowed us into this private space in their lives with Jesus.

This isn’t a moment where Jesus reveals his sexual exposure to his votaries. It is, nonetheless, a “ coming out ” moment. Jesus leads three of his closest musketeers up a mountain to supplicate and reveals to them who he really is. This is the moment where they witnessed the outside and inward metamorphosis of their friend.

The votaries see a physical change in their friend. The pessimists — and further athletic — among us, may chalk up the “ glowing ” appearance they report to the sweat pouring from Jesus ’ pores after a steep mountain rise. But maybe we can attribute this white gleam to commodity differently Jesus is eventually suitable to breathe, to reveal himself as he completely is. He’s a person of prayer and perfect union with God. His appearance changes because he’s in a place that accords with who he unnaturally is, and his musketeers are now privy to this.

Jesus ’ experience ought to be comfort for us in our struggle toward our most authentic tone. When we’re substantially ourselves, and can live in the world with smaller fears and pretensions, indeed our physical appearance is elevated. “ She looks like a new person, ” we say.

From this place of fuller tone- acceptance, Jesus reveals another verity about himself; he’s eventually suitable to expose his father’s will in a familiar way.

The prophets Moses and Elijah appear and adjoin Jesus. The votaries would have incontinently honored them and understood the significance of their presence at the sides of Jesus.

They hear as Jesus speaks with Moses and Elijah about his own outpour that’s to come, his passion and death. At this moment, “ Peter and his companions had been overcome by sleep. ” We can interpret this apprehension and discomfort with reality, maybe, from what Peter says “ It’s good that we’re then. ”
On the one hand, Peter must have been in admiration of what he’d seen while they were soliciting. At a deeper position, maybe, he was simply trying to save the status quo. He couldn’t have anticipated they would simply stay in that place; he knew that upon descending the mountain effects would turn unattractive. He wanted to stay in that place and delight the time he’d with his friend.
In our lives, we come to a place where we know we need to take a new direction, to let go of what we suppose we know, to embrace what we know will be a painful coming period. But we want to save the present for a little longer. Or we come to a place where everything is so good we do n’t want to give it up. “ It’s good to be then, ” we tell ourselves. While it’s always good to be in a good place, we know good effects come to an end.

But before they move on, they’re given one final stimulant, more like a fright or a reckoning.
As they’re preparing their camp to stay, they’re taken into a putatively auguring pall. There they’ve direct contact with God, who says “ This is my chosen Son; hear to him. ”

It’s a call that shapes the purpose of every religionist. But it isn’t just a call to pay attention; it’s a call to action. It’s the heart of God, speaking to the heart of Jesus ’ votaries, and inviting them to seek God with their regard.
With that, the three are thrust from the pall.

With this intimate God- given knowledge, they now have the courage to move on. “ They fell silent, ” the Gospel pens reveal. They demanded no further assurances; they were eventually safe in the knowledge that they had impeccably united themselves with the will of God. God had chosen them not only as companions to Jesus but to reveal to them that they, too, were created in that same image and were, thus, the begotten and cherished of God.
So, too, are we; the cherished, begotten and chosen of God.

Correction,Aug. 9 This composition firstly stated that the Book passage was from the Gospel of Matthew; it’s from the philosophy of Luke.