where is your focus

Friday February 27th, Mark 9: 5 Peter said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." 6(He did not know what to say, they were so frightened.) Peter just didn’t see the big picture. One could say he had an edifice complex. In his fear all he could fathom was a Kodak moment, to stay there and capture the essence of this event. In our fear, we too just want to stay put, we want the church to be what it was when we grew up and we want it just us and God, in that order. Fundamentalism feeds on that fear. We can’t really blame Peter, any of us, given the choice between sitting in the glory and working in the dirt, would want to grab our hammer and saw and start building booths. What God wanted was for Peter, James and John to take this essence down into the world and there bring about transformed lives. God asks the same of us, instead of focusing on self and adoring God, focus on others and find God.