Your Life Is A Metamorphosis....

Metamorphosis.   Metamorphosis is the Greek word for transformation.   Have you ever thought about how our spiritual life is a metamorphosis?   We are constantly changing into the image of what God want us to be.  

The caterpillar goes from being an egg, to a caterpillar, to a cocoon, to a full grown butterfly.   At the egg stage, it is laid on a plant which then becomes the food for the caterpillar.   The caterpillar eats constantly.   As it grows, it continuously splits and sheds its skin to allow for new growth.   As the caterpillar is eating, it is storing up food for later use.   After the caterpillar stage comes the stage where the caterpillar is hidden in a cocoon in order for transformation to take place.   The caterpillar is hidden in the cocoon, but also understand that the chrysalis is also hidden.   It may be suspended under a branch, in some leaves, or maybe even underground.   It is at this stage that complete transformation takes place.   After complete transformation has taken place, the ONLY job that the adult butterfly has is to lay more eggs in order for more butterflies to be reproduced.

We have been laid on the foundation of God's word.  It is our job to be like the caterpillar....to eat, eat, eat.   To feed on the word of God.   During that time of growth we will constantly get rid of the "old skin".  Old things are passed away and behold all things become new.  After this point we go into the stage of being covered by God's word.   The cocoon stage.   The stage where we are hidden and shielded from the elements of life.   The stage where we are being completely transformed.   Transformed to the point of becoming mature in the things of God.   Where we are no longer bound by the sin that so easily besets us.   It is at this point that our desires change.   Our desire for the world changes to a desire to serve God and God alone.  

Understand that once we have been transformed and have become mature in the things of God, our responsibility then changes.   It is at this point that we need to realize that our responsibility changes.   We are no longer just eating, we are at the point of using everything that we have stored up.   Our job while we are still here in this earth changes from eating to reproducing.   At this point, we are to help lay others on the foundation of God's word so that they can also go through a metamorphosis and in the end....help bring others into the kingdom of God.

"Changes"

Ministered By Pastor William Murphy III