February 11, 2024 Mark 9:2-9 Peter had a glimpse into the mystery of our faith: that God became fully human so that humanity might become righteous. The Good News, the hope contained in the Transfiguration of Jesus, is not the message to come down the mountain and serve the poor – a message many would affirm without ever knowing Jesus. The Good News is that God became like us, like you and me. The light that beamed from the transfigured Christ is the same light that said, “Let there be…” The same Light that the creation waits for with sighs too deep for words. The same Light that will one day make all of creation a blaze like a bush with God’s glory, but not consumed. The light that beamed was a glimpse into the eternity that is the fullness of the Kingdom of God. The disciples received a kaleidoscopic preview of what we proclaim at the end of the Nicene Creed: “We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.”[viii] There is no way we can jump from the proclamations of Jesus as Lord – Peter declaring Jesus to be the “Messiah of God” or the people of Jerusalem shooting sweet hosannas as Jesus entered the city on Palm Sunday to the excitement of the resurrection (Easter) without going through the Holy Week. It is not that the wrath of God had to be paid by Jesus to reveal God’s love for humanity. Instead, through Jesus taking on the violence and despair humanity threw at him, the goodness and mercy of God’s love would reveal the lengths to which God would go to save us. Glimpses into the eternity of God come and go for all of us as we continue to grow in our faith and have our own encounters with the resurrected Messiah. And each glimpse is like a kaleidoscope, revealing something new to us about the fullness of who Jesus is. Get full access to Brewing Theology at teerhardy.substack.com/subscribe