Connect Up: The Transfiguration (Part 1)
Carmen Menser, Director | Journey Kids
Spurgeon once said that it is better to hear the Son of God
than to see the saints or build tabernacles. When Peter, James and John joined
Jesus on the mountain, they encountered Elijah and Moses. It was life changing;
they were in awe. Peter was so moved to worship that he wanted to build
tabernacles there to remember the experience. Then they heard the voice of
saying “This is my Son with whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him.” They missed
it. They missed the point. They missed Jesus in the mountaintop
experience.
Worship is described as a feeling or expression of reverence
and adoration for a deity. It is that sense of awe we get when we have been
with God. We so often get caught up in that acts of worship, the raising
of our hands, the signing, or even our giving of our time or resources—that we
forget the awe, we forget Jesus, we forget that the point of worship is to listen
to Him. This is what happened to Peter, James and John. They didn’t need the
experience of worship, they needed to listen to "Listen to Him,” they
needed Jesus. It is not enough for us to worship or the sake of worship,
if we don’t listen and then act. We could waste our time on the mountain
trying to remember the experience; instead, we must focus on hearing the Son of
God and doing what He says.
TWEETABLE QUOTE: It is better to hear the Son of God
than to see the saints or build tabernacles. #RareElements
