The Miracle Of Metamorphosis

These past two years have been quite likely the most difficult season of our lives. When the Covid virus pandemic first became a “thing” we couldn’t have imagined how much devastation, disruption, and heartache it would cause. We also couldn’t have imagined that two years into this, we’re still not at the end.   But God…   Through it all, God has been continuously, faithfully doing exactly what he promised. Whether you’ve been aware or not, God has been brilliantly and lovingly using the intensity of the pressure you’ve been experiencing to expose tattered places in your heart that haven’t been able to trust and distorted ways of thinking that aren’t consistent with who God says you are. Not just exposing but inviting you into a healed upgrade in the way you perceive yourself and others, and thus, the way you love as God loves.   Each of us crawled into this pandemic two years ago, inching along as a caterpillar, thinking this was our truest self. It wasn’t wrong or bad, just incomplete. The pandemic and all that’s transpired in these past two years entombed us in a way that made us feel helpless, uncertain, and isolated. Yet we were never alone.   The Spirit of the Risen Christ has been coursing through our veins and every cell of our bodies the entire time. Something utterly miraculous has been taking place. Akin to the Grinch whose heart grew three times that of a normal heart, we ask ourselves, “how does this happen?” But we really can’t say. It’s Christ in us, the hope of glory, who’s been transforming us into the very nature of the One in whose image we’ve always shared.   We’ve been in a chrysalis and if the truth be told, it’s not been fun. That caterpillar couldn’t possibly know what’s coming, only that it currently feels kind of like a death. Yet, the beauty is happening, and the wings are forming.   The wings…what once would take a day to travel will be covered in seconds. A freedom awaits that couldn’t be conceived of. The ability to find the currents of the wind of the Spirit and to soar with an entirely new perspective is burgeoning.   Friends, we’ve all been in a time that doesn’t make any sense to us, yet something beautiful has been transpiring in each one of us. While the transformation in our chrysalis is nothing short of miraculous, it can’t be preempted. It must run its course. If we try to break the butterfly out before its wings are fully formed, it will die. What does this mean for us? We don’t have to know exactly how this miraculous transformation is happening and where we are along the process. To know that it’s happening is enough. Amid the feelings of uncertainty, we can be still and know…know that God is God, Yahweh doing in us and through us and for us what we could never do for ourselves.   This is not just a new season we are approaching. We’re in a metamorphosis. God has been preparing us to embrace the full truth of his life in us as someone who is entirely different from the one who entered into the chrysalis of these past two years.   Beloved, we are God’s children right now; however, it is not yet apparent what we will become. But we do know that when it is finally made visible, we will be just like him, for we will see him as he truly is. 1 John 3:2 (TPT)