“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.”~Matt. 17:1-2 (A.D. 32)
“[We] were eyewitnesses of his majesty…when we were with him in the holy mount.”~ 2 Pet. 1:16,18. ((A.D.66)
More than 30 years after his mountain-top experience with Jesus, Peter still remembers it, vividly! Some experiences we never get over, especially those we had (and have) with God.
Abraham had his Moriah experience, and Moses never forgot his time at the bush; Jacob’s Bethel experience stayed with him through the years, and Paul’s great event on the Damascus road never left him. And old John with Jesus on Patmos, it was indelibly written on his heart, I’m sure. Those who question such unforgettable events only show they're foreign to them.
Read Psalms if you want to read of a godly man’s blessed experiences with his God.
We no longer hear much about those very special life-changing times in the Christians’ walk with God. Today, it seems to me, we’ve gone from experiential to experimental Christianity. When you take God into the lab to dissect Him, you lose Him!
Often we do not understand the experience when happening, but will later on. “Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.”~ Jn. 13:7
You’re never to seek experiences, they’re something you trip over as you do the will of God. You don’t go looking for them; they will find you! The time, place, and type, are to be of God’s choosing.
The purpose of Godly experiences is to get our eyes focused on Jesus, not the event or the things surrounding it! “And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.”~ Matt. 17:8
"Every so often God pulls back the curtain so we can peek in. He knows when we need encouragement!"~ rds