Psalm 27 • 1 Kings 19:9-18 • 2 Peter 1:16-21 • Mark 9:2-9
Each of our readings this week have a reference to a “mountain top” experience. From being set “high upon a rock” while God protects the psalmist, to the earth-shattering experience of Elijah that reveals God’s voice heard not in the loudness but in the stillness, to the New Testament references to Christ’s transfiguration on Mt. Tabor, where Elijah and Moses are seen present to him.
Many of us remember similar “mountain top” experiences where we felt unusually close to God, or perhaps I should say that God felt unusually close to us? Reconsider those experiences today. What made them so valuable to you? What would that kind of experience with God be like for you today? Do you think you can “hear” God in the way you could then?
“O God, who before the passion of your only-begotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.”
