Recently, I posted an article about not taking life too critically, and wrote about how we must put our faith in God (as a child trusts its parents). Today, I would like to again bring in the butterfly to teach another important lesson to us.
The Caterpillar represents ourselves in our present form. It has a beauty of its own kind, but yet is slimy and poisonous, disliked my many. It feeds on leaves and glories in itself. But its Glory is its diet. It's aim is to feed and die. Similarly, we as human beings have a tendancy to live like this caterpillar. We look at our lives as merely being born, growing up and dying. We are slimmy with sin and poisonous with death. Our end is the grave.
But God never intended for us to live that way. The problem is that we are sinners by very nature, and we tend to have pride in it. We all have sinned and fallen short of God's Glory. But God doesn't want us to remain there. God wants to turn us into the beautiful butterfly, with Wings that Have true Glory, and Food the sweet nectar of His Love. God wants us to be changed from the caterpillar to the Butterfly. If we choose to remain as the caterpillar, unrepentant of our sin, when the flood comes it will destroy us. But The butterfly is Given wings for a journey to the land of pleasantness.
When we die to our sinful nature and turn towards God, we become the cocoon. Like a loser it hangs on a branch; like a dead thing. But the floods sweep the caterpillars below, while the cocoon hangs safely on the branch, awaiting its glorious future. When we Become the coccon we die to our sinfulness and start having Faith in God to Save us. The Bible teaches us that 'for God so loved the World He gave His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for our sin, so that anyone who believes in Him will have Eternal Life'. Now we cannot Go to God as we are, for we are those filthy caterpillars. But when we have faith in Jesus, and submit ourselves to Him, we become God's Children and are forgiven of all our sins. Thus we enter the cocoon stage. We are being transformed in the cocoon. The World will look at the Followers of Jesus Christ and mock them, because they do not involve themselves with the sin of the World.
So it will be for those who choose to give up living in Sin, and follow Jesus Christ, who died for the sins of men. God created us for something really Glorious. Therefore, give up your caterpillar self, follow Christ into the Cocoon, and God will raise you up from the Grave into a Beatuful Butterfly on the day He Judges the World.
FLEE FROM SIN.
Interesting Thought - True Religion is not that which teaches us sinners to live good lives to enter heaven(as if Heaven were a Bargain), but True Religion is that which reveals our sinfulness as Lawbreakers in the sight of God, and Reveals also the Grace of God which Saves us. YOU ARE SAVED AND ACCEPTED BY GOD ONLY BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH, AND NOT BY WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST.
The Caterpillar - 
The Caterpillar represents ourselves in our present form. It has a beauty of its own kind, but yet is slimy and poisonous, disliked my many. It feeds on leaves and glories in itself. But its Glory is its diet. It's aim is to feed and die. Similarly, we as human beings have a tendancy to live like this caterpillar. We look at our lives as merely being born, growing up and dying. We are slimmy with sin and poisonous with death. Our end is the grave.
But God never intended for us to live that way. The problem is that we are sinners by very nature, and we tend to have pride in it. We all have sinned and fallen short of God's Glory. But God doesn't want us to remain there. God wants to turn us into the beautiful butterfly, with Wings that Have true Glory, and Food the sweet nectar of His Love. God wants us to be changed from the caterpillar to the Butterfly. If we choose to remain as the caterpillar, unrepentant of our sin, when the flood comes it will destroy us. But The butterfly is Given wings for a journey to the land of pleasantness.
The Cocoon - 
When we die to our sinful nature and turn towards God, we become the cocoon. Like a loser it hangs on a branch; like a dead thing. But the floods sweep the caterpillars below, while the cocoon hangs safely on the branch, awaiting its glorious future. When we Become the coccon we die to our sinfulness and start having Faith in God to Save us. The Bible teaches us that 'for God so loved the World He gave His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the penalty for our sin, so that anyone who believes in Him will have Eternal Life'. Now we cannot Go to God as we are, for we are those filthy caterpillars. But when we have faith in Jesus, and submit ourselves to Him, we become God's Children and are forgiven of all our sins. Thus we enter the cocoon stage. We are being transformed in the cocoon. The World will look at the Followers of Jesus Christ and mock them, because they do not involve themselves with the sin of the World.
But Suddenly one day - 
the butterfly emerges from its cocoon. It was really stuffy and painful in that cocoon, but when the fullness of time came the butterfly emerged out in its glory.
the butterfly emerges from its cocoon. It was really stuffy and painful in that cocoon, but when the fullness of time came the butterfly emerged out in its glory.FLEE FROM SIN.
Interesting Thought - True Religion is not that which teaches us sinners to live good lives to enter heaven(as if Heaven were a Bargain), but True Religion is that which reveals our sinfulness as Lawbreakers in the sight of God, and Reveals also the Grace of God which Saves us. YOU ARE SAVED AND ACCEPTED BY GOD ONLY BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH, AND NOT BY WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST.
GOOD LINKS TO HELP YOU KNOW MORE ABOUT JESUS CHRIST
- MEANING OF LIFE (http://gotquestions.org/meaning-of-life.html)
- TRUE BEAUTY (FOR WOMEN - http://www.teen-beauty-tips.com/index.html)
- CHRISTIAN FAITH (http://www.christian-faith.com/forjesus/)
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