Do you ever have a random/weird thought come into your head? Here is my most recent one and I’ve decided to share it with each of you. I must be getting old…because instead of just keeping it to myself I feel compelled to share my thought with all of you. Sorry folks, it just felt right to do so today!
“Have any of you ever wondered what caterpillars think about?” “No.”…that’s not surprising neither did I until a recent read of a passage in scripture prompted me for a moment to imagine this question. Honestly though, think about it for a minute.
Imagine the confusion a caterpillar must experience. For all its caterpillar life, it crawls around a small patch of dirt and up and down a few plants. Then one day it takes a nap….OK, admittedly a long nap…the kind of long nap that would make even my dad proud! And then, what in the world must go through its head when it wakes up to discover it can fly? What happened to its dirty, plump little worm body? What does it think when it sees its tiny new body and gorgeous wings?
Friends, this is the same kind of astonishment and wonder we need to sense when the Holy Spirit enters our lives and our transformation begins. We should be stunned in disbelief over becoming a “new creation” with the Spirit living in us. As the caterpillar finds its new ability to fly, we should be thrilled over our Spirit-empowered ability to live differently and faithfully.
It is really an astounding truth that the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead wants to and CAN live in you and me. We need only to open the door and invite HIM. Why would you or I ever want to keep crawling when I have the ability to fly?
Acts 1:8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere.”
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