The Transfiguration of Jesus in our Gospel (Matt 17:1-9) was not just about Jesus. It is a vision of the glorious future to which we are all called. We  all encounter problems and negativities, and we get hurt going through life and then we have a choice: either to say negative things or choose to remember who we really are—brothers and sisters of Jesus, sons and daughters of God since baptism—and that the glory of the transfigured Jesus awaits each of us.

We can think in negative ways or remember the encouragement we receive in Sacred Scripture. John wrote in his first letter:

   "we are already children of God but what we are to be in the future has not yet been revealed;

all we know is that when it is revealed we shall be like him

because we shall see him as he really is." (1 John 3:2)

 

"We shall be like him.” The  glory of the transfigured Jesus is awaiting each of us, thanks to our baptism. So then, for one who believes, there is no room for negative thinking. If we are tempted to think negatively because of events that occur to us or what others think of us or say to us, remember our dignity as sons and daughters of God.

 

The disciples who experienced Jesus’ transfiguration had to come down the mountain and return to normality, but they remembered the transfiguration. Like them we live in normality, but we believe and know that God has destined great things for us.  Our hope is in the Lord, that one day we shall be with Him in His Heavenly Kingdom.

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