The life of a Butterfly provides deep revelational insight into the life of a believer. I believe that God created certain aspects of nature to give us natural knowledge that unlocks spiritual truths about who we are in God. Sometimes spiritual things are too deep for us to digest because we are still on milk when God is trying to give us meat. As I was sitting at the table and talking with my spiritual parents about some of my trials my spiritual mother mentioned something about the butterfly effect.
See the butterfly in all its beauty, uniqueness and majesty doesn’t start of so majestic. In fact, the butterfly starts off as a slimy, slow, inadequate, weak caterpillar that is at the beckon of nature’s call. The caterpillar’s life is always in danger; it never has a moment without some type of distress because it’s weak, young and vulnerable. But then something magnificent happens. The season changes and the timing is just right and the caterpillar finds itself wrapped in a cocoon of metamorphosis where it is being transformed into the creature it was destined to become.
Throughout all the bumps in the road, the unstableness of the wind, the rainy days, and the cold nights nothing could have stopped the caterpillar’s season of metamorphosis to come. It is its destiny to be transformed into something greater.
So it is in the natural, it is in the spiritual realm as well. In your bible, Jesus told Nicodemus unless a man is born again he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. Meaning unless a man is transformed from his old state and reborn into his new state then he cannot be in right relationship with the Father and consequently cannot be transformed into who he was destined to become.
See when God saved you it was your season, your timing to be wrapped in the cocoon called the Holy Spirit. Inside that wrapping, the Holy Spirit initiated your metamorphosis; He changed your mindset, your behavior, your thought process, and your desires. He gave you strength where you were weak and covered you were you were naked and vulnerable. Yes you started off like the slimy caterpillar, held captive by the dictates of the world, your environment and circumstances but your season came.
See the bible says that a man must be born of water and of the Spirit. To be born of water means to be born from your mother’s womb (naturally). Before any child is born there is a breaking of water. To be born of the Spirit means to be reborn by the metamorphosis and transforming power of the Holy Spirit. See at salvation is where you were wrapped in your cocoon and then in due time, the walls of your cocoon cracked and emerged was a totally different entity. Your look was different, your smell was different, and your genetic makeup was different. No longer were you weak, frail, ugly and vulnerable. You emerged a new creature in Christ, old things were passed away and all things had become new.
When the butterfly first emerges from the cocoon it has to get used to its new identity, it has to learn to operate in its new destiny. When it attempts to fly, it’s take off is a little shaky, it’s strength is a little limited but as it goes through the process of understanding who it is, it gains its strength, it gains its momentum and finally it stretches it’s wings and illuminated by the sun, its’ marvelous new identity is seen by all of nature.
See when you first stepped out of your cocoon. You were shocked at the new you, you were a little shaky, a little limited in power but as you went and go through the processes of life and build your momentum in the things of God you became and become more and more confident in who you are and you begin to stretch your wings and eventually, the glory of who you have become will be illuminated by the Son of the living God (Jesus) and can be seen by all of nature and that my friend is the Power of the Butterfly Effect!!!!
