Have you ever seen someone with teeth so white that they didn’t look normal? Up until just a few years ago, no one had ultra-bright white teeth. It became a thing, and people were paying big bucks for them. Then people with those blinding chompers noticed that their eyes failed to match the brightness. They thought their eyes looked bloodshot compared to their bleached teeth. So what did they do? They started getting their eyes whitened, too. Add dark skin from the tanning bed, and you've got someone who looks like they belong in that X-Men school.

When the three disciples who went with Jesus up on that mountain where He was transfigured, they quickly realized that the Jesus they were used to seeing was not the natural Jesus. They had seen Jesus only in human flesh. They had seen Jesus wearing only the clothes offered in this world. The real Jesus was so much different. They had never seen Him like that before. Check it out.

“And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.” - Mark 9:2-3, ESV.

Jesus did not look normal. Do you know why? Because he isn’t normally human, and he isn’t usually clothed in the sin-stained materials from this world. Jesus, God the Son, was only in His worldly state for 33 years. Except for that short time, the normal Jesus is clean, bright, and intensely free of any stain that His creation had grown used to seeing.

Here’s a takeaway. When you pray to Jesus, your prayers do not reach the ears of a person like you. Jesus knows what it is like to live in this world, but he is not bound to the consequences of living here. He is clean and pure, bright and holy. If you could see Him right now, you would realize that you are not praying to a man, but communicating with God. Try to picture the real Jesus when you pray. -Pastor Mike

BTW, I find it strange that the Dentist of the Year gets a little plaque.