Metamorphose – to change in form; transform.

I am developing a fascination for butterflies. It started when I went to Costa Rica and saw the Blue Morpho; one of the world’s rarest butterflies. Just the other day I found one of his cousins in my yard. I’m looking at him now. Yes, he’s dead. But his colors are still brilliant. He’s amazing.

Butterflies go through four stages of life; egg, larva, pupa, and adult. It’s a process none as metamorphosis. When a butterfly is hatched it becomes a caterpillar; that’s the larva stage. A caterpillar cannot travel very far or very fast. It is totally land locked. Most are not attractive at all. Some are even poisonous.

Then the butterfly enters the pupa stage. They go into hibernation inside a coccoon for around 10 to 15 days. While inside the coccoon or chrysalis, the caterpillar goes through a complete change. When it emerges, in the case of the Monarch butterfly, it will have gone from a two to three inch worm to a beautiful butterfly with a three inch body and a six inch wide wing span that is capable of migration from Texas to the Rockies of Colorado.

The change is glorious. And the change that Christ brings to us is more glorious. When we ask Jesus to become our savior, he immediately sets us free from a life of sin and death. He releases us from the bonds of hell itself. He gives us the right to access the Father. He writes our names in the Lambs Book of Life. It is an instantaneous change. But it is also the beginning of a process.

“And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” IICor. 3.18

We keep changing. We keep developing as we read the Bible and pray and allow God to chip away at what does not resemble Christ. As long as we live, we should be continually changing into a clearer image of the likeness of Jesus so that we might “reflect the Lord’s glory”. And the change is glorious.

“Do not be conformed any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12.2a

It’s time to spread your wings. Transform.