“This is my beloved Son: hear ye him.” Mark 9:7
We need God’s Book and we need God’s prophets. He would
not have us discard either Moses or Elijah and what they represent. But the lesson
of this incident on the Mount of Transfiguration is surely that neither of
these can take the place of the living voice of God to our hearts.
The kingdom involves on the positive side a recognition of
the absolute authority of Christ, and on the negative side a repudiation of
every authority but his as final. It demands a firsthand intelligence of the will
of God that embraces other God-given aids, but does not end with them.
In the kingdom there is only one Voice to be heard,
through whatever medium it speaks. Christianity is not independent of men and books—far
from it. But the way of the kingdom is that the beloved Son speaks to me
personally and directly, and that personally and directly I hear him.
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