Renewed Life...

Renewed life

After, rains when I came out of my house, I could see the beauty of nature all around. Wow! Fresh, and green, as if the trees and plants had a bath, all; things appeared so clean, with small insects enjoying and flying. Butterflies collecting nectar, bees buzzing around birds chirping on trees. The rainbow too could be seen in the horizon which gave happiness.

Seeing the beautiful scenario, I thought, for a moment as sometimes, we too are so much conditioned, to be lazy in our lives; because of the modernization. The vast conveniences, which has come into this new generation, makes the life easy. Just, press a button and everything works. This makes our life more stagnant, like mosquitoes, who love to spend their life, in a stagnant pool and we humans slowly, become like a mosquito, with no spiritual food, not spending time with God.

Stagnation is doing nothing, to be inactive in the whole life. Good for nothing. When, I saw the butterflies in the garden of my house, I was so pleased and happy to see them; as they were active flying from flower to flower collecting nectar. When, I studied briefly upon there lives, they transform their body, from pupa to a caterpillar, and then to a beautiful butterfly. They struggle in their life to form, a new body. It eats on leaves, sometimes a single leaf, the whole life; thus, as long as it eats, the leaf it grows, and through the mechanism of metabolism, it eventually, forms a caterpillar then changes and becomes into real, genuine butterfly. Such, should our feeding be, on the scriptures. A transformation, in our lives is important it means that we need to act, neat and clean in all our act. To have a change in our behavior our actions, and appearance.

Romans 12:2–Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. And do not be fashioned according to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and well pleasing and perfect.

When, we look more closely at the verse mentioned above, we find that a, transformation means something different from all of these things. A caterpillar changing into a beautiful butterfly is an excellent picture of the above-mentioned verse. We cannot change ourselves, but Holy spirit can transform our hearts and lives. When we feed on the spiritual leaves, we will have a close relationship with God, sing and praise, give thanks, read the scripture, pray to Him and do what all pleases Him.

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Thanks

Ann