Dear Friends,
One day this summer I found this caterpillar eating a sweet, feathery fennel plant in my garden. It was okay, I really didn't mind sharing and he was really hungry like in the children's book about the hungry caterpillar. To think that it would someday have wings and that a part of my garden would contribute to the life cycle of the caterpillar was sort of comforting.
Changes and transformations are continual in a garden. The caterpillar needs food to live and to eventually transform. The right food is essential for the process.
In Romans 12:2 we are told to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. The change God requires starts on the inside. We cannot transform ourselves any more than the caterpillar can transform its self. Since we live in a material world we are surrounded by material things and we have choices like the little caterpillar in my garden had choices of what to eat. God will change us as we yield to Him. It is a life long process. As we daily seek the Lord in prayer and the Word He will do the transforming.
2 Corinthians 5:17-18 "anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun. And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to Himself through Christ..."
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