For the disciples, Peter, James and John, the transfiguration of Jesus was a huge spiritual experience—something that they could hardly comprehend but as they did, they loved every minute of it. In fact, they wanted it to last longer—Peter suggested setting up tents and “camping out” for a while. For us, we might have a spiritual high at an amazing worship service, a retreat weekend, a youth convention, while listening to music, reading the Bible or another spiritual book, or during some personal time with God.
Sometimes we want to “camp out” in that spiritual high for a while longer, like the disciples suggested. That’s natural, because it feels so good. But what we need to do is remember that “It’s not about me, it’s about God.” Just like a cloud overshadowed the disciples, our personal feelings need to be overshadowed by our worship of God. And just as God said, “This is my Son, my Chosen, listen to him,” we need to also give our ears and hearts to what God is saying. Spiritual highs are all about praising God, not about us.
When the cloud leaves and Jesus and the disciples are alone again, they head down the mountain and they keep quiet about what’s happened. They may have kept quiet for several reasons: 1) The experience was so amazing and so awesome they didn’t know how to talk about it—they didn’t know how to communicate it with others. 2) Jesus told them not to talk about it until after his Resurrection, when people would better understand that he was the Messiah, the Son of God.


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