Peter wants to build a tent or booth for the glory to dwell in –
Almost as if to say – dwell in our dwellings – so that we might have the glory we as your people had long ago –
But the Father cuts Peter off –
And by His words, the Father tells Peter that he and the rest of us can have need of something better than a tent, we need an eternal house in which His glory dwells (2Cor.5).
What is this house that God would have us find this glory? The Father has shown them by the transfiguration of His Son, and then tells us, as He told Peter, James and John on the mount:
THIS IS MY BELOVED SON – LISTEN TO HIM.
Jesus is the house, the eternal house come to earth, where the this glory dwells.
How can we be sure this glory which dwells in Christ is for us? We need only go to the cross where we find the Father hiding us in Christ, that His greatest glory might be our glory.
Though this glory is hidden to the human eye, it may be readily accessed through faith according to the Father's bidding, LISTEN TO HIM. To access that glory, on need only the doors of the sacred Scriptures and there will we receive this glory, even as it received through the water with the Word in Baptism, even as it received through the bread and the wine with the Word in the Lord's Supper.
Lord, I have ears to hear, let me hear, let me listen. Amen.
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