Metamorphosis

July 28

Child of God…Sometimes we wonder how our loving Savior could allow us to struggle as much as we do. We feel like we are wrapped tightly in a cocoon of trials without an easy way of escape. We forget His words, “In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world,” John 16:33.

When we lapse into this mindset of persecution and helplessness, we must ponder the lesson of the butterfly who began his trek to beauty and grace as a lowly caterpillar. The caterpillar is much like us before we own Jesus as our Savior and Lord.

We’re wrapped in our own little world and we yearn to be free. We begin to realize that the primary constraint that holds us back is our self-imposed cocoon! We start disassembling it in the hope of setting ourselves free—until we recognize that doing so is quite challenging.

Others around us seem to be un-entangled and we yearn for the freedom they have but the reality is, like the butterfly, we cannot be helped from our cocoon by anyone but our own diligence to know Christ and Him crucified (I Corinthians 2:2). When we gain this knowledge, we will have everything we need to be free!

When we have appropriated the salvation Jesus has supplied for every diligent seeker of truth, we will begin to emerge fully from the prison of our doubt, our delusion, our despair, our sin—and we will emerge as the glorious image of our Lord that He desires us to become.

We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is (I John 3:2,3). We shall go “from glory to glory,” II Corinthians 3:16-18), as we grow in Him. As we bask in the beauty of who our Jesus is, we shall have His exquisiteness upon us. We shall be free and we shall be beautiful—like the butterfly.