Be Ye Transformed, by the Renewing of your mind

Romans 12: 2 
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind


I am sure everybody knows how a caterpillar changes from his wormy disgusting body to a beautiful delicate butterfly. I thought I knew until we start researching it more for Children's Church.
I found we don't fully know what happens. Researchers and scientist disagree but, in reading so many different takes on Metamorphosis I can tell you, in my own humble opinion, exactly what happens....a Miracle. 
First you have that gross little caterpillar, that looks like a fat worm.

It eats and eats and shed it's skin several times until at last it looses interest in food , wonders around till it finds a branch (or something similar) and creates a "Silk Pad" think double sided tape. Caterpillar then hooks his feet into the silk pad and hangs upside down in what is called the "J-Cycle".

The skin cells form the exoskeleton of the pupa, and when that last skin is shed, the "pupa" is revealed

Start of skin shed

Skin gone and Pupa revealed

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Inside the Pupa , many things are happening.   Here is one scientists take.

"They start growing really rapidly and differentiating into the different tissues, so that literally the entire internal contents of the caterpillar — the muscles, the entire digestive system, even the heart, even the nervous system — is totally rebuilt. It's like you took your car, you took a Ford into the shop and left it there for a week and it came out as a Cadillac."

Read it for yourself!

And finally, A beautiful new creature is born....a miracle of Re-Birth.








It been several weeks since we did this lesson for the kids but in rereading all the information, I once again feel humbled and hopeful in my heart. at the likeness of our own soul to that of the Caterpillar/Butterfly.
~ We are born into this world a Sinner, we wonder around looking for "food" to fill our soul. That emptiness we all try to fill with fleeting pleasures. Only to find we grow more "hungry"  we lose hope in ever finding  peace for our troubled heart. Like that caterpillar who loses interest in food.

I can't speak for any but myself,  I was miserable in my sin, I knew right from wrong. I couldn't sleep at night, my mind was always in a turmoil always unhappy with myself, my life...just completely miserable. No matter what I tried or thought would make me happy, it never did. I found myself no longer caring what happened to me or what I did because, I had lost interest in living.


Yet when Jesus came into my Life  I  "shed" my old skin and become a new creature in Christ. A true miracle occurred, I felt clean inside. I felt peace and even joy. Even outwardly I was different there was a smile that went from my face all the way into my heart. For my pain, He gave me healing, 

 my sleepless nights, He gave me rest for my weary mind He traded His Love, for my bitterness

took my troubled heart and gave me Peace,  as for My orphaned soul, He made me His Child

The old man inside had died and the miracle of Rebirth had taken place in my heart. 

 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

 He created each of us  with the desire that we would be His, with the potential inside of us to be more. 
The emptiness you feel, is God's place in your Heart. It can only be filled by Him.

There is none like You, No One else can touch my heart like you do

                         I could search for all Eternity long and find There is none like you.