"So Close Yet So Far Away"

Luke 9:28-43; 45

This is the story of The Transfiguration of Jesus.

Peter, John, and James went up to a mountain to pray with Jesus. While praying Elijah and Moses

visit the trio. (Side note: Elijah is said to represent prophecy Moses is said to represent The Law and Jesus is the representation of Prophecy fulfilled, Fulfillment of The Law and Fulfillment of Salvation)

Anyway: The story continues with Jesus, Peter, John, and James coming back down the mountain.

As they touch ground a man brings his son who is possessed by a demon to Jesus. The man tells Jesus

that His disciples were not able to drive the demon out of the boy.

Jesus drives the demon out but we see that Jesus in a sense is in as much awe that his disciples couldn't

do the job.

I think that there is a good reason for Jesus to be perplexed. You might think that anyone who had been

spending so much time with The Son of God would be able to drive out a demon tormenting the soul of a little boy. At this point their eyes were still blind to the power that Jesus hands out to those nearest to Him. Eventually the disciples do learn of the power of God and how to use it. Not by any power that they had in themselves but by the gifts bestowed upon them by God.

Even after Jesus returns to Heaven the power of healing and deliverance stays with them but only if the use those gifts in The Name of Jesus. Being obedient to God through the wisdom of The Word of God and The Holy Spirit. The main reason for the ascension of Jesus into Heaven is so that His Spirit may be poured out upon All Flesh. Upon all the children of God.

So as modern disciples we too can be given the power over evil. But we ourselves don't have the power. It is obtained by spending time with Jesus and The Holy Spirit via The Word of God.

Are you too busy to spend time with God? Too busy to pray? Can you take time to pull away from Facebook or other internet sites? Sit in quiet time with God instead of taking much needed energy to learn healing spells in a virtual fantasy land?

Why not spend time learning healing from the source of all healing (Jesus) and heal people in the real world?