By Sidharth Mohandas
Few days back my maid showed me some ugly caterpillars on one of our plants. We had to kill them because they were destroying the leaves. However, this morning when I was walking, I saw a piece of gold on this plant, but when I looked closer it wasn’t gold it was a golden pupa! We had ‘missed’ one ugly caterpillar which had turned into a beautiful golden pupa. The word that came to my mind… Metamorphosis! We might look at ourselves and see the ugly caterpillar in us. We wish we could kill the ‘ugly’ us, but then Scripture offers a process of metamorphosis.
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. [Romans 12:2]
Do you know the Greek word used for transformed in the above verse? It’s Metamorphoo! The same Greek word for Metamorphosis. Don’t ever think that change can happen overnight, it is a process just like how a caterpillar doesn’t change into a butterfly overnight. You and I need to constantly work out on changing our mentality, by feeding our mind with the Word of God. This is why memorizing Scriptures is so important. By meditating and memorizing Scriptures, what we are doing is training the mind to think a certain way.
Thoughts or ideas are powerful. Thoughts are more powerful than death. Why do I say that? Even after a person dies, his ideas or outlook may remain. For example, the idea of democracy was once in the minds of philosophers like Aristotle and Plato. But even after they have died, their thoughts have remained. In fact the idea of democracy now rules the world. Think about it, a product you buy from a shop was once an idea in the mind of a designer or producer. God is the one behind this structure. And that is why He sends the seed of His thought to you, that when you receive it, you see the product of heaven.
I encourage you today to approach the Word for renewal and in turn transformation. And very soon, you will behold the beautiful butterfly. *grins
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we tend to put ourselves down a lot of the time yet God’s word is their for the building up of the saints.. ;’
I confess that I’m very bad at this. Sometimes the constant struggle is overwhelming. Thanks for the encouragement to keep pressing on.