GPS Journal - August 3, 2011

The powerful gaze took him in and locked him up.  Fear unlike any he had ever known.

GUIDANCE

The cloud was alive. And all-seeing.  The penetrating gaze was too much.  The look was not ordinary.  Not just looking him over or checking him out.  But a look that could create (or re-create).  So powerful that it took him completely in--and shut him down.

PERSPECTIVE 

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.  Listen to him!"  (Matthew 17:5 NIV).

STRENGTH FOR THE JOURNEY

He fell face down on the ground.  Then Jesus touched him telling him not to be afraid.

Looking up he saw only Jesus.  With a touch that took him in and lifted him up.

Tony