RESURRECTION METAMORPHISIS!
Green, bumpy, crawly, colorful caterpillar …
One given day your painfully slow movements
across the green and brown earth
Take you to a chosen branch or limb or stalk
high above the ground.
It is there that you attach yourself and begin
to spin
The woven cocoon that encircles you, hides you,
protects you.
Darkness now falls within the cocoonish walls …
What seems colorless, hard, and lifeless, is
silent and still.
Time passes – is this all there is? How long will you hang suspended there, dear
chrysalis?
Suddenly, something stirs within!
An inner struggle ensues in the darkness still –
But struggle you must because to life there is
no other way.
Your hard, dried caterpillar shell breaks away
And your now energized movements are giving way
to new life!
Out of the cocoon emerge bright, translucent
patterned colors
And of all things, wings – that begin to spread
as the empty cocoon is left behind!
What are you now? O cocoon, where is your hold?
O butterfly, you have been set free to fly and
to be
All that God has planned!
Transformed … changed … renewed … liberated …
new creation!
Fly, beautiful butterfly … fly!
Your Creator has gifted you with wings!
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Jesus … divine
embryo placed in human womb;
Born in a
stable, called to earth to carry out Your Father’s plan.
Loved by
earthly parents, You grew in stature with God and man.
Everyday
tasks morphed into miracles as You walked amongst the people
Who You came
to touch and heal and save!
But Your
enemy had other plans - that played
right into Your Father’s will
That took You
on a torturous path to a Tree high on a hill.
It is there
soldiers attach you to the Cross with nails – and blood begins to flow;
Suspended
there, You give Your life … to the very last drop of blood and Your very last
breath.
Darkness
falls o’er the skies … You are taken off Your Cross and placed in Your Tomb.
You are
lifeless, silent and still. Time passes
– is this all there is? Where is hope,
dear Jesus?
Suddenly,
Something stirs within the Tomb!
You’ve
completed the struggle in the pits of Hell to defeat the enemy and the grave.
There was no
other way.
The Spirit of
God breathes life into His Son … the graveclothes are flung off …
Jesus folds
them and leaves them behind to say, “It is finished!”
Out of the
Empty Tomb emerges the Resurrected Lord and Savior in all His glory!
Where is your
victory, O death? Where is your sting, O
death?
O Jesus, You
have been set free to bring us life and set us free!
Transformed …
changed … renewed … liberated … new creations in Christ!
Fly …
precious people … fly!
Your Creator
and Savior has gifted you with wings!
RESURRECTION MIRACLE!
REMEMBER . . .
“The Lord
your God is in your midst, The Mighty One, will save;
He will
rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love,
He will
rejoice over you with singing.”
~ Zephaniah
3:17
Joyfully Serving Christ . . .
Pastor Doug and Debbie
