Corona Devo 1972



Sitting by a window today, I saw a butterfly outside of it.  Actually, two butterflies landed right outside, right next to me. 

Right.

Separated by glass, they rested beneath and beside me. Gorgeous and beautiful in both design and function, they held my attention for a long while, and a number of other people came over to gawk and enjoy them too.

Who doesn't like butterflies? 

They are beautiful,  aren't they?


But they weren't always delicate, light, feather-winged beauties.  Every butterfly begins as a chubby caterpillar.  An ugly (in my opinion) larva and then multi-legged worm-bodied creature that eats itself into oblivion, and then has a metamorphosis into....well, into something all together different than it was.  The unbecoming caterpillar becomes a beautiful butterfly.  

It's us.

The butterfly's physical metamorphosis mirrors our spiritual metamorphosis opportunity in Christ Jesus.  

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.  ~Galatians 2:20

If we so choose, by accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior, we can make a change.  A dramatic change.  A life-altering change.  A life-upgrading change.  A beautifying change.  And--we will never be the same creature that we were before we knew Jesus.

Before having Jesus in our heart and seeking God's will in our lives, we are ambling through life, but in an unchartered course and without tapping-in to the dexterity and direction of our divine Daddy.  The Lord realigns our priorities and redirects our lives, once we come to Him and lay our sins before Him, and ask for His forgiveness.

He gives it, and when we come clean before Him, we change into a beautiful creature that will come to resemble Christ more and more as we seek to become more like Him.  Gone is our old self: ugly-in-sin, and sinning-ourselves-into-oblivion.  

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (18) All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation...  ~2 Corinthians 5:17-18  

And because of God's grace and redemption, our consciences are no longer heavy-in-guilt, but become light and delicate in the gratitude of grace.  We have a metamorphosis into....well, into something all together different than we were. 

Thank goodness, and...we thank God.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.  ~Isaiah 1:18

In Christ, everything about us that was unbecoming becomes beautiful as we are changed and transformed into His likeness.

But, it's our choice, and in many ways, it can be a fresh decision each day.  

Let's invite meaningful metamorphosis in Christ into our day and heart today.  It's beautiful. 

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.  (11) Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.  (12) Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.  ~Psalm 51:10-12


Blessings, 

Sarah 

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com

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