Walking the world in white - the Transfiguration

Mark 9:2-13

"His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them."

Mark 9:3

I was just thinking yesterday about the transfiguration of Jesus and how if the colour of our clothes reflected our walk of purity - what colour would our clothes be?

Also we read in Exodus 34:29-35, when Moses spent time with God on Mount Sinai, he came down so 'radiant' that he had to wear a veil! How much more light could we be shining in the world if we spent more time in God's presence.

I just read a comment today on James' blog (see right column) by Xander - in the early church, they spent 10 days in God's presence (in prayer), 10 minutes preaching and saved 3000 people!! Holiness - it's a pre-requisite to changing the world - touching Heaven, changing earth.

One of our well loved songs in the Salvation Army written by our founder, Send the Fire, has a great line that says, for power to walk this world in white, that's what we need to be working towards. Send the Fire!

A couple of weeks ago, we had the young adults retreat. We had a silent retreat for a couple of hours looking at different aspects of Psalm 27 with different coloured tables representing these aspects. One of them was a white table representing Holiness. It was so attractive, a clean, white table just in front of me. It was spiritually attractive - that's what I wanted!

Holiness - purity, nothing standing in between us and God. Are you washed in the Blood of the Lamb - ironic, but the blood price paid for our impurities, it's so amazingly refreshing.

God needs an army of pure soldiers at His disposal. How can He call on us for His pure purpose and plan if we can't be used. We are lucky God doesn't wait for a perfect person, but uses us anyway - He deserves the glory don't you think!!

God created us in His image - let's return the favour - become Holy!