If you’ve ever had a mountaintop experience, it can be hard to return to the realities of life. Maybe you even experience mountaintop moments in a Sunday worship service, when you are blessed with a special feeling of God’s near presence. But those high moments of spiritual bliss don’t last forever. One reason is because it’s hard to sustain such emotion over the long haul. Another reason is because of Jesus! Notice how Jesus doesn’t allow his disciples to stay on the mountaintop. He leads them back down into the valley. The disciples are thrust from this moment of glory on the mountain to the hard way down with Jesus, who is heading for the cross. Are we willing to follow?
