GOD's WORK of ART

Catholic people will never forget "YOU ARE DUST..." or "YOU ARE STARDUST..."
But today (4th Lenten-Sunday 15.03.15) the Church likes to tell us: don't forget:
God will send us again and again prophets cf. 2 Chro 36.14-23; Ambassadors
to convince us: it's time to make a turning-point to God. Such a profet, a famous
Ambassador of God is Jesus Christ. His mysterious message for Nicodemus (John 3.14-21) is much more than we are able to understand:
 "everyone may have eternal life in him" /  "God loved the world so much...."

The interesting way from "You are dust..." to  "You are ambassador..."
is transfiguration. For many people JvN is just DUST, for many people JvN is
AMBASSADOR of God.  WHY this difference, this change ???  
Jesus himself gives the answer: "The Son of Man must be lifted up".
Transfiguration is "lift up your hearts"; lift up Jesus of Nazareth; lift up your XY... Moses has given a pre-sign in the desert: As people complained: we will die because of the poisonous snakes - Moses made a metal-snake, put it on a pole (lift it up to be seen well from everyone) and it happened: anyone who had been bitten would look at the metal snake and be healed (Num 21.9).
Jesus (in the desert of today) must be lifted up: it means: Jesus must be shown
to everybody as the one who has died (on the cross): the one who brings death as
judgement is now dead. AND YOU LOOK AT HIM - and there will be a healing power coming over you ...  you will not die any more by judgement... you are saved.
"LOOK AT HIM" (take into your view his whole life; and all what people have spoken about him) and you will find yourself middst in the great transfiguration-process.

What you see is changing you + once changed - you change what you see
First: you see JvN as dust (nothing special)...  but now you open your eyes...
Sec.: you start to study the Bible; to listen to the Churches...
Third: you try to follow him; to establish your own Christian-life-style...
Forth: you and what you see is changing = transfiguration-process...
Fifth: you never know where the way is going... life in abundance has started.
In this sense Paulus says (Eph 2.10) "WE ARE GOD's WORK of ART."