Our Joy In Heaven

Luke 9:28-36
Let us look a little at this scripture showing what our joy in the glory will consist of. We have the warrant of 2 Peter 1:16 for saying that the scene represents to us the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And this is what we wait for. Our souls are not in a healthy state unless we are waiting for God's Son from heaven. The Church is not regulated in its hopes by the Word and Spirit of God unless it is looking for Him as Savior from heaven (Phil. 3).
This passage, as disclosing to us specially what will be our portion when He comes, is important to us in this respect. There are many other things in the passage, such as the mutual relations of the earthly and the heavenly people in the kingdom. These it may be very instructive to consider, but this is not our present purpose, which is to consider what light is here afforded on the nature of that joy which we shall inherit at the coming of the Lord. Other scriptures, such as the promises to those who overcome in Rev. 2 and 3, and the description of the heavenly city in Rev. 21 and 22, give us instructions on the same subject. But let us now particularly look at the scene on the holy mount.
“And it came to pass about eight days after these sayings, He took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray. And as He prayed, the fashion of His countenance was altered, and His raiment was white and glistering." It was when Jesus was in the acknowledgment of dependence—"as He prayed"—that this change took place. This, then, is the first thing we have here—a change such as will pass upon the living saints when Jesus comes.