By Sidharth Mohandas

A day or two back my maid showed me some ugly caterpillars on one of our plants. We had to kill them because they were destroying the leaves. 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’s a process just like how a caterpillar doesn’t change into a butterfly overnight. It’s a constant struggle to tame your mind to think thoughts that are in line with God’s thoughts.

I hear people say things like, “I’m an old sinner!”. That’s not what God says, He says that In Christ I became the righteousness of God [1 Corinthians 5:21] .I know I have constantly said to myself, “I’m an unstable person”, while I realized that I should be saying and believing that “Because I trust in the LORD I am like Mount Zion, I cannot be shaken but will endure forever” [Psalm 125:1]. When I feel lonely instead of saying, “I am lonely”, I should be saying, “The Lord is near me because I call upon Him, I call upon Him in truth” [Psalm 145:18]. When you are sick instead of saying, “Probably God wants me sick“, tell yourself, “By the stripes on His body healing is mine”.

Remember, metamorphosis is a process and not an event…