Missing the calls... (reflection for August 6, 2006)

Last Sunday was the feast of the transfiguration of Jesus. In the Gospel, Jesus asked Peter, James and John to accompany Him to a mountain where the transfiguration will take place. During that event, the 3 apostles were amazed on what they saw so they offered service to Elijah and Moses but a voice came out from the cloud, saying that Jesus is God's son and they must listen to Him.

The last entry I made about the event of the transfiguration was few months ago when the Gospel talks about the transfiguration. You can go to that link if you would like to read it again... http://iwillbecomeasaint.blogspot.com/2006/03/transfiguration-reflection-for-march.html

Some of you might ask if why did Jesus only asked Peter, James and John to accompany Him during the event of the transfiguration. In fact, some of you may think that Jesus has some "favorites" among the apostles. But I believe that it is not true that Jesus has some favorites. I believe that Jesus already predicted to the apostles, John, being the only apostle who is very loyal to Jesus, and was present up to the time when Jesus died on the cross. James as the 1st apostle to be killed in a martyr way and Peter as the one who holds the key to heaven.

Christ is transfigured, not by changing into something He never was before, but by revealing to His disciples what He truly was in opening their eyes. He did not only revealed what he truly was to his disciples, in this event, Jesus revealed himself to all of his children, us. All of us are called by Jesus to be a witness to his divinity, yet we just do not answer that call. There are many calls done by Jesus in our lives, but sad to say that only a decimal of a percent answers it.

If our soul is a cellphone, how many "missed calls" has Jesus done? what do you think? Start answering those calls, cause you'll never know when Jesus runs out of "load" or credit. Cherish those grace filled moments.