Looking Back at the Mount
/Looking Back at the Mount
(II Pet 1:16-18; Matt. 17:1-9)
Stunned we stood upon the Mount,
As echoes of Heaven's Voice
Resounded in our ears.
This Man Who shared the stage
With God's great voices of the past
Was not merely one of three,
As it appeared to me,
But One Alone, the Father's Son,
More than Law and Prophets both.
How little I understood
The words that God had made me say
When the Master asked us who we thought He was;
For before my words were cold,
I rebuked Him
For walking toward the cross
That was His goal
As sole, obedient Son—
The only One Who could embrace
Such pain for all of us.
Only later did I know
What had to be endured
Before the Glory of the Mount
Could be told to all the world.
Who would have believed
That Heaven's Glory could stoop so low,
Or love so much?
Elton D. Higgs
Sept. 14, 2002
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