Inside each of us is a blessed, prosperous, victorious person. This person is free from addictions and bad habits. This person is confident and secure, talented and creative, disciplined and focused. But just because this person is in you doesn’t mean he or she is automatically going to come out. This person has to be released.
An ancient scholar gives us the secret in Roman 12:2 He said, “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” In the original language, the word transformed is Metamorphoo. It’s where we get our word metamorphose. We know how caterpillars metamorphose into butterflies.
He is saying if you will get your thoughts going in the right direction and not dwell on negative, not able to thoughts and program your mind with what God says about you, then a transformation will take place. When your thoughts are better, your life will become better.
Think about the caterpillar, the little wormlike larva that starts off as one of the most unattractive insects. It’s very plain, nothing really special about it. But God predestined it to go through a transformation. At a certain point it form a cocoon, and the metamorphosis starts to take place. It’s a process. Little by little it changes.
One day it begins to push out of the Cocoon. A leg comes out, then a wing comes out. Soon it head comes out. Before long, it’s totally free from the cocoon. It has transformed from one of the plainest insects into one of the most beautiful colorful, and graceful butterfly.
Instead of having to always crawl and squirm around on the ground, it can now fly to wherever it wants to go. In the same way we all Start off as a worms, so to speak. Our thoughts, without being retrained, naturally gravitate toward the negative.
We think, I can’t take that promotion. I’m not qualified. I will never rise much higher. I come from the wrong family. Or, I have made too many mistakes. You know what those are? They are Wormy thoughts. But just because we start out that way doesn’t mean we are supposed to finished that way.
God predestined us to go through a transformation from a wormlike larva that crawls and barley gets by to a beautiful butterfly that soars. Here’s the key: it’s not up to God; it’s up to us. The only way to release your butterfly is to get your thinking in line with God’s Word.
You may be struggling with an addiction but in you right now is a person who is totally free. You may be down in your finances. Business is slow. But in you right now is a person who lends and does not borrow, who is the head and the tail. If you keep renewing your mind, as the ancient scholar said, it’s just the matter of time before that person comes out.
