Daily Sacrifice, July 9 (9:29-32)
“As He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistering. And, behold, there talked with Him two men, which were Moses and Elias: who appeared in glory, and spake of His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem. But Peter and they that were with Him were heavy with sleep: and when they were awake, they saw His glory, and the two men that stood with Him”— Luke 9:29-32.
THE Apostle Peter tells us that the Transfiguration was a picture of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:16-18). In other words, it was a miniature of the kingdom which is yet to be manifested in this world. Jesus Himself intimated that (Matt. 16;28; Mark 9:1; Luke 9:27).
The present application of the Transfiguration is linked with that which the Spirit of God brings before us in 2 Corinthians 3. As we are occupied with the glorified Saviour, we ourselves, though still in our bodies of humiliation, are transfigured (it is the same word) into His image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Thus exhibiting in our measure the grace and holiness so fully seen in Him, we shall be in position to manifest Him to a demon-controlled world, no longer helpless as were the disciples at the foot of the mount; for the risen Christ, who is Himself God, will work in and through us, both the willing and the doing of His good pleasure (Phil. 2;13).