Jesus was transfigures and showed the plan of God *

Mark 9:1-13
Jesus was transfigures before them, Peter, James and John.
Then a cloud appeared and covered them, and a voice came from the cloud: This is my Son, who, I love. Listen to him!"
Jesus replied,"To be sure, Elijah does come first, and restores all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected? But I tell you, Elijah has come, and they have done to him everything they wished, just as it is written about him."
The apostles are sure now that Jesus is the Messiah. This special glimpse of his glory, given to the inner ring of three, must have been tremendously reassuring through all that lay ahead. Moses( Israel's great law-giver) and Elijah(the first great prophet) converse with Jesus, and the subject is his coming death. From now on Jesus will talk more and more of his suffering and death: this is the Messiah's glory. But even his closest friends do not find it palatable.
1.Talk among three
2.Peter's talk shows his unknown about Jesus
3.Voice in the cloud
1：太16 你是基督，是永生神的兒子
摩西，以利亞 重點式的談話，卻是門徒所不解，並拒絕接受
聖靈充滿不是生命，聖靈的果子才是生命。
2：彼得的論調…不知自己在說什麼
  他卻不知道神的格局與計劃
  他只知道是世界的格局…羅得的死結。
不要想征服世界，我們只會被世界同行化。
可16 卻也是不信？
信的人必有神蹟奇事隨著他們。
3.雲彩有聲音…這是我的愛子
先相信就看見，亞伯拉罕…，摩西…，司提反…
新的一年我是祢的僕人，我要親眼見祢！

Why?

We always have the mind and plan about ourselves, but we do not know the plan of the Lord.

Holy Spirit be filled is not the life, but the fruit of the Spirit is life.

When we believe first then we will see and understand it first!

Jesus let his close disciples knew who he is and what the way Jesus will suffer. But they do not understand it.

As we move further into Lent together, today's opening prayer encourages us to ask for greater integrity, to seek wholeness. We are called to change. It focuses on the gift of sight, reminding us that we often don’t ‘see’ very well; in fact sometimes we are blind to God’s action in our lives.

How?

I turn to God, I look at the one who knows and loves me, the one who judges me with integrity, I stay with him for a while, spending time as I would with a good friend.

Help me, Lord, to look at my life through your eyes and give me the grace I need to grow in love.