Devotion is not all. Peter wished to stay on the Mount of Transfiguration, to go back no more to the cold, sin-stricken world below, but no: down at the mountain’s base, human suffering and sorrow were waiting for the coming of the Healer, and the Master and His disciples must leave the rapture of heavenly communion, and hasten down to carry healing and comfort. It is always so. Amid the raptures of devotion we hear the calls of duty waiting without. We should never allow our ecstasies of spiritual enjoyment to make us forgetful of the needs of others around us. Even the Mount of Transfiguration must not hold us away from ministry.