"Do not conform any longer to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - His good, pleasing and perfect will." - Romans 12:2
Transforming Love. It's true. God's amazing Love keeps transforming me. I can look back over the last year, amazed at the changes in my life, perspective and priorities.
It's nothing to my credit. God is at work. Only God can transform: create new life.
"This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun." - 2 Corinthians 5:17
Some moments I am that butterfly, burst forth from a cocoon of the old. I fly in God's strength and am changed. Then other times, regretfully, I am actually more like a toy - the classic Transformer. Plastic transformers are meant for playtime: one thing now - then something else later . . . but not a new creation.
Does a butterfly regress, fold up her wings and roll back into a sluggish worm? Does she retreat from her gift for fear of flying? Does she forsake her wings because she doesn't deserve them? Do pride and distraction end her flight?
No. She is a butterfly. Changed. Transformed. The wings are hers. A gift from God.
Why do I spend my days as a Transformer? Only temporarily altered. One moment I am new, the next minute somehow old again.
I look ahead to all God has before me. I don't even know most of it, but I know a caterpillar won't fulfill it. I can see how I've changed, but I can also see how much more God needs to replace.
May I continually be transformed with no resemblance of the former.
Through God's grace, I will try to be a butterfly all day.
"The unfailing Love of the Lord never ends . . . His mercies begin new each day." - Lamentations 3:22-23
