Why the Butterfly?
What is it about butterflies that
intrigues me?
Do you ever just sit and wonder about things? Webster's dictionary
describes the word "wonder " as
an
event inexplicable by the laws of nature; a miracle. I wonder
about alot of things...I
wonder about
how a baby can grow miraculously inside the
belly of
a woman? I wonder how can I see the wind's effects,
yet not be able to grasp
it with my hands? I wonder how God knows every single spec & grain of sand
on every beach in the world?! The lists of wonders goes on and on! Well, what
about the butterfly?...
The butterfly...yes, another
amazing wonder to me. It is amazing to me that it begins
as one creation &
is
transformed into something so completely different.
And what a great picture of hope for our
lives!
"God has given us natural things
so that we could better understand spiritual things. Therefore
if any man
(or woman) is
in Christ, he (she) is a new creation;
the old things have passed away; behold new things
have come!" (2 Corinthians
5: 17). The butterfly is a beautiful examplethat
our lives can be changed...our
lives can look different than
what they are right now...there
is hope!
When I think of a caterpillar
( the butterfly's origin) I think- sticky, stinky,
bound to a limb or the ground,
slinking through
life, vulnerable to someone
capturing it or worse- crushing it. When I think of the butterfly...
I think of freedom, beauty, mystery, miracle and hope. What a beautiful
representation of a new life
in
knowing Jesus Christ.
My life
before knowing Jesus was a life of slinking around, insecurities,
fears & captivity.
It has been
transformed by the blood of
Christ to become a new creation, a new life of freedom, beauty, & hope-
a
miracle. Just like the beautiful creation of the butterfly. 
