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Prepare: As believers live each day in God’s presence, clearer revelations of his reality break upon them. Pray for alertness to God’s working in your life today.
Revelation
Along with James and John, Peter receives his second great revelation in a week. This time it is an overwhelming experience of the reality of who Jesus is. Again Peter can’t quite grasp its significance.
God draws aside the veil of reality to reveal Jesus as he truly was and is. The one whom they had known hitherto as companion and teacher is displayed in all his hidden glory, alongside God’s two greatest servants in the Old Testament.
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Any of us would feel completely dumbstruck by such an experience; at least Peter finds something, however inappropriate, to say. He draws on his previous understanding of God’s appearing to Israel in their wilderness wanderings. Then Israel had been instructed to make a tabernacle to accommodate God’s presence among them (Exodus 26).
This time a voice from heaven simply tells him to be quiet and to listen (v 7). The voice tells him that Jesus is God’s Son. Once again the disciples ask questions. What does ‘resurrection’ actually entail? And where do Elijah and suffering fit in? Jesus explains and alludes once more to what will happen to him.
Respond: Recognising God’s presence and will is not always easy for us. As with Peter, James and John, it may even be rather sobering. Pray for wisdom and strength today.
http://www.wordlive.org/Session/Classic/2012-09-14
Revelation
Along with James and John, Peter receives his second great revelation in a week. This time it is an overwhelming experience of the reality of who Jesus is. Again Peter can’t quite grasp its significance.
God draws aside the veil of reality to reveal Jesus as he truly was and is. The one whom they had known hitherto as companion and teacher is displayed in all his hidden glory, alongside God’s two greatest servants in the Old Testament.
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Any of us would feel completely dumbstruck by such an experience; at least Peter finds something, however inappropriate, to say. He draws on his previous understanding of God’s appearing to Israel in their wilderness wanderings. Then Israel had been instructed to make a tabernacle to accommodate God’s presence among them (Exodus 26).
This time a voice from heaven simply tells him to be quiet and to listen (v 7). The voice tells him that Jesus is God’s Son. Once again the disciples ask questions. What does ‘resurrection’ actually entail? And where do Elijah and suffering fit in? Jesus explains and alludes once more to what will happen to him.
Respond: Recognising God’s presence and will is not always easy for us. As with Peter, James and John, it may even be rather sobering. Pray for wisdom and strength today.
http://www.wordlive.org/Session/Classic/2012-09-14
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