Journey Of Life Lutheran Church

“Mountain top” experiences can be great! We feel a spiritual high and everything seems to be just right. Peter, James and John had a mountaintop experience with Jesus during which Jesus was transformed right before their very eyes. But then he went back to normal and they went down the mountain. Mountain top experiences can be very helpful in that they give us a vision of what could be, they can motivate us and move us to initiate action. But we can’t stay on the mountaintop and we can’t expect to be completely different people when we come down from the mountain top. The scriptures tell us that we are not to be conformed to this world — pressed into its mold — but transformed by the renewing of our minds. The Greek word for “transformed” is the same word used at Jesus’ transfiguration. How does this happen? Our minds are renewed by hearing with faith. Galatians 3:1-3 reminds us that it was not by our ow