About eight days after Jesus asked who the disciples thought He was. They got the answer right but now it’s being verified by Moses, Elijah, the Law and the Prophets—and God the Father Himself. The Transfiguration.
It’s always a hard climb to the mountaintops. Pain before glory.
It’s a hard climb back down, too. We have to remember the brightness of the mountaintops to give us hope through all those valleys and dark places.
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Jesus says follow Him instead of your heart.
Look to Him instead of inside yourself.
You don’t “do you,” you deny you. You crucify you.
Everyone who follows Jesus has to deny themselves, take up their cross, lay down their life—kill it. Lose it. It’s the only way they’ll be able to save their life.
What the heck does all that mean?
This is what it means to follow Jesus. To be Christian you have to crucify yourself. All those passions and desires have to die. Your sin has to die. Your sins aren’t going to drag you to hell anymore because Jesus forgives you and died for them but if you keep doing them, you’re going to drag hell into your life now.
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It seems to me when God blesses something for His use, the first thing He always does is break it. When you take your plans to Him and ask Him to bless them—get ready. The first thing He’s going to do is break them. And that will be a good thing.
Sometimes the truth will thin the herd. Don’t ever water down God’s Word to make it easy to swallow. Don’t beat them over the head with it either. They’ll come back when they get hungry again. Trust that God knows what He’s doing.
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The disciples had a front-row seat, they must have felt pretty special—probably having the time of their life following Jesus around. “This is fun!” As if it was all for them.
Then we come to chapter nine and Jesus changes the game.
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