Today's encouragement comes from Matthew 17:8, where we read these words:
"When they [the three disciples] had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only."This account (above) is in reference to Christ's transfiguration on the moun-tain—when Moses and Elijah joined the Savior and the three apostles (Peter, James, and John). After the encounter with the heroes of the Old Covenant church (Moses and Elijah), the three disciples saw "no one but Jesus only."
Why? Because everything Moses and Elijah did and wrote pointed directly and only to The Christ to come. And, in comparison with the Messiah, Moses and Elijah were "small potatoes." Let all faithful Christian churchmen look to Christ alone for their souls' help and salvation. No one else can do what He only is capable of doing.
[Puritan quote of the day: "In a word, as Christ's Person excels your person, so His obedience infinitely exceeds your disobedience.” —Christopher Love, in, "The Dejected Soul's Cure"]
