Peter, John and James had gone up a mountain with Jesus to pray.  While they were up there, the three disciples were overpowered by sleep.  When they did wake up and were fully awake, they saw the glory of Jesus.  (NASB Luke 9:28)

  What the three disciples saw:
The face of Jesus was changed.  His clothing was dazzlingly white and gleaming.
[Jesus became what He looked like before His incarnation.  Jesus was the baby conceived in Mary by the Holy Spirit of God and born in a Bethlehem stable.]
[Jesus became Who we will one day see in His brilliance as the King of kings!]

Think about this:
When God the Son chose to become fully human (the Son of Man) He put aside His rightful glory.  He chose to live a sacrificial life from the moment of His conception!

(NASB) Philippians 2:5-11 “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bondservant, and being made in the likeness of men,
8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

You and I have a choice to make…to choose the attitude Jesus chose – or not.  Jesus yielded to His Father’s plans and purpose for Him.  That is sacrificial living!
That is what sacrificial living does when we choose to follow Christ and His example.

(NASB) Romans 12:1-2 “THEREFORE I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

Followers of Christ: are you following Him?

Followers of Christ: how do you pray? 

Do you ask to “see” Jesus as He is?