Daily Bible Reading 11th August 2026 // Luke 9:28-36
28 Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29 And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white. 30 And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah, 31 who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32 Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake they saw his glory and the two men who stood with him. 33 And as the men were parting from him, Peter said to Jesus, “Master, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah”—not knowing what he said. 34 As he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. 35 And a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my Son, my Chosen One; listen to him!” 36 And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen.
God's great and overmastering preoccupation is to have His will done on earth as it is in heaven. Only in Christ is that will fulfilled. No one else had ever perfectly fulfilled the will of God on earth. But it was ever Christ's delight to do that will (cf Luke 2:49; John 4:34; 6:38; 8:29; Hebrews 10:5-7). He knew the intense yearning in the heart of God that His will might be done, and doing that will became a passion for the Son of God, and on this occasion it was so intense that it became incandescent, so to speak, and blazed forth in glory, the body no longer able to contain it. What the disciples saw was holy fire, moral glory, breaking forth in a grand oblation to the Father of lights. Furthermore, it was in prayer that the glory burst forth, for prayer was the supreme expression of Christ's devotion to the Father's will. Campbell Morgan suggests that the mountain fastnesses of Galilee and Judaea may often have witnessed such sights, when the Son spent whole nights in ineffably sweet communion with the Father. This may well be; we do not know. What we can say is that on this occasion the Son's delight in the Father, and the Father's in the Son, broke away beyond words, in the cloud of glory that came down to hide that ineffable, awesome fellowship. As the Old Testament says, 'the secret things belong unto the Lord our God'!