Awaken to God’s Glory

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Have you ever been asleep and needed to be woken up metaphorically speaking? What is the most wonderful encounter you have ever awoken to? Have you ever woken to discover something you never could have imagined?

Most of us have missed something in life at some point because we have been unaware. Many of us need to become more aware of the glory of God around us. We need to awaken to God’s glory.

At Jesus’ transfiguration, Luke’s gospel account tells us, “Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him.” (Luke 9:33, ESV).

The three disciples Jesus took with him to the mountain of transfiguration, Peter, James, and John, almost missed the glory of God because they were literally asleep. Had they not awakened to Jesus, they would not have seen his glory on display with Moses and Elijah.

Similarly, if we want to see the glory of God, we need to be with Jesus and we need to stay awake and aware. If we are asleep, literally or metaphorically, we need to awaken to the glory of God.

May we awaken to the glory of God all around us as we follow Jesus as he leads us in this life.

A Collect for the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ: “O God, who on the holy mount revealed to chosen witnesses your well-beloved Son, wonderfully transfigured, in raiment white and glistening: Mercifully grant that we, being delivered from the disquietude of this world, may by faith behold the King in his beauty; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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