Today, we remember the radical change in appearance of Our Lord Jesus Christ, while in the presence of Peter, James, and John, on a high mountain. 
The Transfiguration revealed Christ's glory to His disciples, in
shining splendor of Uncreated Light. For a moment the veil is drawn
aside, and men still on earth are permitted a glimpse of the heavenly
reality, the glory of the Eternal Triune God. Before that small group
of Apostles, Christ was shown greater than the Lawgiver (Moses) and
greater than the Prophets (Elijah), He was shown to be the Messiah.
Interestingly enough, Jesus already WAS the Messiah, it was the perception and understanding of the Apostles that was changed. The Uncreated Light of God is always there. This Light is not part of our creation. It is Uncreated, just like God is Uncreated. It comes from God and it existed before the Universe was created. Moses saw it on Mt. Sinai, and this is the Light that floods the City of God in Rev. 22. This Light of God, the energies emanating from the Triune Being, is always about us, yet humans rarely see it
At this feast, people often say Jesus was changed on Mount Tabor, but in fact it was the Apostles who where changed. May our own hearts be Transfigured in our daily lives in such a way to see the manifestation of the Divine glory that is in our lives, each and every day. May that Light, Uncreated since before the world began, shine on us also.
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, O Father, and You, O Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever.
Great post.
Posted by: John Kaiser | August 07, 2007 at 10:05 AM