This Sunday (February 3) we will celebrate the end of the season of Epiphany using as the basis for our worship Matthew’s account of the Transfiguration. On this day we remember the experience of the three disciples who joined Jesus on the mountaintop. We remember how they came to understand who this one was that they followed, that he was the fulfillment of all that God had been doing prior to that moment.
I have thought how that truth could have been communicated to them had they not been there. Their presence was a necessary part of their learning about Jesus. Our presence is a necessary part of our learning about Jesus. This Sunday as a part of our remembering, we will have opportunity to make a commitment of ourselves to be present in worship for the coming year. True, it will be February, but there is still time to make resolutions and commitments, especially one as important as this for our growth in the faith.
Join us this Sunday, and make your commitment of presence in worship in response to your God and in hopes of learning even more about this one who calls us.
