Gluten Free & God Seeking: What Lesson Did Peter Learn on the Mount of Transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-13?

Friday, September 16, 2011

What Lesson Did Peter Learn on the Mount of Transfiguration in Matthew 17:1-13?

Did you hear the Lord speak to you today? After reading Chapter 49 of the Life-Study of Matthew on the Lord’s transfiguration, the words that have been echoing in my heart are “hear Him.” When I read this last week, I was in the middle of preparing to leave town for the weekend to attend my granddaughter’s three-year-old birthday and having student boarders move in and out. I knew I wasn’t really focusing in my morning time with the Lord. I was reading the Bible and praying, but I hadn’t really heard the Lord. Have you ever done that? I was in autopilot, and I'm sure if you're honest you've been there before, too.

This morning I looked up this verse again: Matthew 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, the Beloved, in whom I delight, Hear Him! So this made me think of Mary sitting at the Lord’s feet, and if you don’t take time to sit at His feet then how do you know what God’s desire really is?

And then when I read the next chapter on how Peter got stumped by the temple tax, I saw for the first time the connection between these two sections of the word. In chapter 50 Witness Lee brought it together on pages 497-598 like this:

"He also says that it’s one thing to get the revelation of who Christ is (Matthew 16:16) and another thing to apply it...If he had still remembered what had taken place on the mountain, he would have referred the question to Christ to hear what He would say. But instead of listening to Christ, he gave his own answer” (Lee, Witness. Life-Study of Matthew. Anaheim: Living Stream Ministry, 1977, Print).