I really enjoy when what I am studying personally comes up in other areas of my life. This week for example, I have been studying about being a new creature in Christ. The Sunday lesson is on being set apart or consecrated unto God. To do this, we need to be transformed - changed - renewed! The children’s devotional this morning centered around that very point!
Frogs and butterflies are amazing creatures. To witness an inching, fuzzy, leaf-munching worm, knowing it will one day fly daintily through the air, sipping nectar from dazzling fragrant flowers is an amazing thought. Frogs are no less amazing, though perhaps less romantic due to their slimy, croaking nature.
The children and I read today that a tadpole is able to change from a water-dwelling, gill-breathing, plant-eating creature to a land-loving, insect-devouring, lung-breathing amphibian. The change is made possible by the energy stored in the tail. But what would happen if the frog-to-be stopped growing? What if he stopped being changed into the new creature he was intended to be?
He would die.
As Christians we are called to be “...transformed by the renewing of {our} minds...” But what if somewhere along the way we stop that metamorphosis? What if we stop becoming what we were made to become?
Like the frog, we too would die.
Not a physical death, but a spiritual death.
We need to daily die to the old self. We need to moment-by-moment take our thoughts captive. We need to remove the garbage in our lives and then replace it with the regenerating Word of God. We need to present ourselves as a living sacrifice unto God while the day is still called “today”. Greatly anticipating that unknown hour when our Savior will return and in a twinkling of the eye we shall be changed!
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