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• Today's "Moment with Mark" (58)

  18 January, 2013

  "Teacher, this is wonderful!" Peter exclaimed. "We will make three shrines — one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." (Mark 9:5 NLT)
   

  We call them "mountain top experiences" - those events and experiences that are touched by the hand of Almighty God and charged with a God-awareness that is anything but usual in our day-to-day living which is more accurately described as mundane. At least, I think that is probably the way Peter felt about things. Whatever, it's the way I often feel about 'things'.

  As the scene unfolds, Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus and begin discussing Jesus' impending death at Jerusalem. Quite a powerful trio of 'divine personage' and certainly enough to scramble the mind of an ordinary fisherman. No wonder he didn't know what to say!

  Peter might not have known what to say but I think I could make a pretty good guess as to what he wanted. I think it would sound like this: "Lord, this is wonderful. I have never seen anything like this. I have never felt like this before. I never want to let this moment go. I'll tell you what, let's build three shrines - one for each of you. Then let's stay here forever".

  Peter wanted to freeze-frame this majestic event, to capture it in all its glorious technicolour and to retain it forever. And who can blame him?

  However, if you read the rest of the story you will discover that down in the valley there is a man who has a demonized son. He is in need of those up on the mountain top. Shall they selfishly remain in that wonderfully elevated experience or shall they come down from the mountain and engage in the task of liberation?