Come Down from Brighter than bright!
Lighter than Light! Very God of very God! Jesus shines like the sun at His Transfiguration!
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The Epiphany season has been all about Jesus showing us His glory. Wise men from the East came to Jerusalem to worship the One born King of the Jews. The Father spoke, “This is my Beloved Son with whom I am well pleased,” and the Holy Spirit descended from heaven as a dove at His Baptism. Jesus changed water into top-shelf wine, healed the sick, and raised the dead. That’s a lot of Epiphanies! But at the end of the Epiphany season, Jesus puts on His greatest show! He is transfigured before St. Peter, St. James, and St. John. His face shines like the sun with unborrowed light, and His clothes become as white as lightning. He changes form. He is transfigured. His glory is revealed to them. Now that’s an Epiphany! God is in the flesh and blood of the man, Jesus. He is not far off at all. He’s not distant on some mountaintop. He is with you. He is for you. He is near you. He is true God, begotten of His Father from all eternity. He is true man born of the Virgin Mary. He is your Lord. He is your God. St. Peter didn’t get it. I’d have missed it, too. I’d have gotten so excited about Jesus shining like the sun and about being there to see it, that I’d have wanted to stay on that mountain with Jesus forever.“This is even better than an HT conference! Let’s build three altars! One for you, Jesus. Then we can build one for Moses and one for Elijah! Let’s stay in this mountaintop experience forever!” After all, that’s how we like God: bright and shining and powerful. God on our terms. God only for us. God doing and saying what we want Him to do and to say. God
