This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him. The passage that constitutes today’s Gospel Reading recounts the event of the transfiguration of Jesus in the presence of three of his disciples, Peter, James and John. It is an account that marks an important phase in the evolution of Jesus’ relationship with his disciples especially when read in light of the immediate preceding episode (Peter’s confession of Jesus as the Christ of God). However, on this Second Sunday of Lent, it is the events that transpired on the mountain on that night that is of interest to us. The Gospel accounts report that as Peter and company marveled at the phenomenon that they were fortunate enough to witness, a voice from heaven, presumably God’s, declared Jesus as God’s beloved. Accompanying the declaration was a command to listen to him (Jesus). In other words, the event of the transfiguration also functioned as God’s presentation of Jesus to the world as someone worthy of imitation. The question that we have to ask ourselves, therefore, is this: what is it in Jesus that we must imitate, and why is it important that we listen to Jesus? 
In the Second Reading, St. Paul, writing to Timothy, reminds him (and by extension the entire Ephesian Christian community) of the grace that God has bestowed upon creation through Jesus Christ. It is a grace whose main purpose is not only to make men and women adopted sons and daughters of God in Jesus Christ (cf. Ephesians 1:5; Galatians 3:26) but more importantly, to make them coheirs with him (cf. Romans 8:17). Having come from God, humanity, as are the rest of creation, was poised to “inherit” the riches of its Creator (eternal/fullness of life). And although creation had been gifted with this grace from the very beginnings, it is in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ that its full manifestation has taken place. This is because it is in the redemptive work of Jesus Christ that the immortality (fullness of life) of creation which had been God’s gift for creation (but lost through sin) attains its realization. This fullness of life, made available to creation once again in the person of Jesus Christ, is acquired by those who listen to him.
Creation no longer has an excuse for failing to attain the gift that God had planned for it from the very beginnings. God has righted the wrong that sin brought upon creation by allowing his Son to assume a creaturely nature and to dwell with creation. Humanity can no longer say that they do not understand what God says because in Jesus Christ, God now speaks the language of human beings. We can now listen to Jesus because he speaks our language. We can imitate Jesus Christ because he is like us in everything but sin. We can listen to, and imitate Jesus because like us, he too has been tested in every way and as such he is able to sympathize with us (cf. Hebrews 4:15). 
Jesus Christ dwelt amongst us in order to show us the way back to fullness of life. The content of the good news that Jesus came proclaiming is that it is possible for us to lead happy and fulfilled lives. All that it takes is obedience to, and trust in God. In the First Reading, Abraham is presented to us as an example of someone who led a life of trust in, and obedience to God’s word. Although it had not been long since God had revealed the self to him, he (Abraham) willingly left his people for an unknown land at God’s behest. It was a feat that turned Abraham into a model of faith for those who were to follow. 
Obedience to, and trust in God is our only way to fullness of life (immortality). Jesus led a life of obedience and trust in God, a life which he presents to us for imitation. It is a life of complete surrender into God’s hands, a life of letting God determine our course and trusting God to steer our ship. Abraham did it, as was Jesus. We can do it too. Obedience and trust in God is the message that Jesus preaches to us, the message to which God urges us to pay attention. God’s will for us is that we have life in its fullness (cf. John 10:10). Only obedience to, and trust in God can guarantee us that.