“How
long, O Lord?” is a theme of many of the Psalms, and for many of us this
anguished cry will at times have been ours too; on the other hand mountain-top
experiences that recall the Gospel accounts of the Transfiguration will also
have been known to many of us.
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Yet as Peter and John, alone with Jesus on the
mountain, soon learned, such experiences are rapidly followed by the often
grinding trials and, let’s face it, drudgery down in the valley below; and one
of life’s greatest challenges is keeping in our field of vision that seemingly
distant yet ever-approaching Light as we labour for the Kingdom, often
unnoticed, uncelebrated and un-thanked, in an unending stream of tasks that at
the time seem commonplace and inconsequential. Yet such tasks are - if we
faithfully pray day by day for His light on every detail of our path (Psalm119:105) and always have a song of thanks in our hearts - at least as
divinely-ordained as those (for most of us) much rarer moments when all eyes
seem to be on us. Besides, we cannot know when the Lord will call us home and we
should live each day as if it were our last, regularly recalling Peter’s
reminder that one day in the Lord’s sight is as 1,000 years, and 1,000 years as
one day…….
Simon Robbins
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