Butterflies

I love butterflies.  They are beautiful, but they are also incredibly different.  So many different colors, so many different sizes.  I don’t mind caterpillars, but they aren’t as entrancing as a butterfly.  Butterflies have often been used as an analogy for God changing the life of a person who has given his or her life to Christ.  We are the same person, but we have been transformed.  We should be transformed. Right?  Sometimes we’re not.  And that is the struggle.  Sometimes we just don’t want to be butterflies.  Sometimes we don’t want to leave the comfort of our cocoon.  Sometimes we think there is nothing wrong with just being a caterpillar.  Sometimes we are butterflies who insist on walking on the ground, forgetting we can fly.  But God has a plan for us.  He wants us to be beautiful and graceful in flight.  He wants us to break free from the earth that holds us down.  When we give our lives completely to Him, He transforms us completely.  May we be transformed into His likeness.