Intensely Radiant

2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. Mark 8:2-3

Do you realize that with those who are closest to Jesus are the ones that will see him and all of his glory? After all isn't that what Jesus longs for, for his people to know him deeply and intimately. If we spend our days beholding his beauty and glory then we to will become like him.

I oftentimes think of what it would have been like for James, Peter and John to have seen Jesus in all of his glory on that mountain. Can you imagine the look on their faces when the radiant one and all of his brilliant light hit them in the face? They would never be the same again, and they would never look at Jesus the same way either.

The truth is I want to be changed by his radiance in my life. I want to spend time knowing his heart, and knowing his ways and everything about him. It is only in this place that I will become like him. Then of those around me who do not know him they will see if the glory of Jesus in my life radiating out from me.