Do you ever wonder~
"Will I ever be the SAME again?"
after something happens
that challenges you not to be the
SAME
as you where,
yet you want to stay the
SAME
because
that is the only way you know to be?
But is it good to stay the
SAME
when you could be oh so much better?
I wonder if a caterpillar had a choice
would it
choose to stay the
SAME
and have a gazillion legs then wings to fly?
Why would it want to become different and fly when crawling is all it knows?
Why would you or I choose to stay the
SAME
&
continue to crawl through life being
"anxious about everything"
when we could soar through life
"by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God"
so that we become so different because
"the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7)
Why would you or I choose to stay the
SAME~
when we could become oh so different
that
SAME
will never good enough
because we can be oh so different
than we are so used to be
just because we ask~
"Search me, O GOD, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!" (Psalm 139:23-24)
and
HE answers
in a way that
you are never the
SAME
again~
"And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36:26).
A caterpillar doesn't have a choice
to ask to change or not to change,
as it just does.
Oh how much easier it would be
to jump into a cocoon
and just let nature take its course
metamorphos~zing us into a
beautiful butterfly
without our doing anything.
But we have a choice
& that isn't to stay
in a cocoon
but to come out
and choose to
to go from crawling to flying~
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:
The old has gone, the new is here!" (2 Corinthians 2:17)
Why be the SAME when you can be oh so different?