“After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them.” (Mark 9:2)
Nowadays, it seems like the biggest enemy of encountering Jesus and seeing his glory is incessant busyness. Sadly, this is particularly true of those in ministry. And why not? After all, we are working for kingdom purposes here, right? Well, maybe...and maybe not. Sometimes our unbridled busyness has more to do with us—our egos, our need to be needed, our perceived indispensibilty, and our insecurity—than it does to do with Jesus.
The problem is that if we never encounter
Jesus ourselves, how can we ever hope that those under our care
will? We must relentlessly make time and space in our lives for ongoing encounter with Jesus. But the sad truth is that all too often we
fail to see the glory of Jesus, simply because we are too busy to follow him up
the mountain.
Lord Jesus, free us from the addiction of busyness. Help us to never love the things we do for God, more than we love the God we do them for. Help us to never get too busy to follow you up the mountain. Amen.
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