Transfigure Us, Oh Lord by Phil Russell

Transfigure Us, Oh Lord by Phil Russell

Second Sunday Of Lent

Piety
God put Abraham to the test.
He called to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am!” He replied. Genesis 22:1

Study
“If God is for us, who can be against us?” Saint Paul to the Romans 8:31

Action
“Peter said to Jesus, “it is good that we are here!” Mark 9:2-10

Another LENT. Another chance to “Reboot!”

Let’s just ponder, “What if?”

What if…God was actually “speaking” to us. Up close and personal!

What if...God was calling us personally by name. Over and over from the beginning, we have seen it happen. To Adam. To Abraham. To Samuel. To Moses. To Jeremiah. To David. To Solomon. Even, Paul, formerly Saul of Tarsus.

But really...ME? LENT 2018?

Weren’t we led by the Psalmist to sing out, “If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart (as in the desert, as in rebellion).”   

Or today's Psalm singing out, “I will walk before the Lord, in the land of the living.” Psalm 116:10

Yet even today, we live in falsehood, deadwood, self, and sinfulness.

Can we stop to LISTEN!

 
Maybe that might even be a form of, “fasting”...from the noise of Life’s cares and concerns and woes.

Take time to “SING” wholeheartedly the words of today’s Psalm: “O Lord, I (am) your servant, the son of your handmaid; YOU HAVE LOOSED MY BONDS. To you, I will offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I WILL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD.”

Just maybe, today, this Second Sunday of Lent 2018, we, TOO, might experience TRANSFIGURATION!

Then we too, might PROCLAIM: “Jesus, it is good they we are here!”

That is one TRIPOD on which to make our STAND! 

What if “God is for US, who will condemn? Christ Jesus, it is who died – or, rather, was raised – who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.” Romans 8:34