Complete Metamorphosis

Monarch Butterfly

Here's probably one of the best magic tricks in nature. Okay, we're going to take a plump caterpillar, let it melt in it's own skin, and have it come out as a beautiful butterfly!... I guess I need to explain it.
Butterflies, as well as moths, flies, bees, wasps, ants, and beetles go through this process called complete metamorphosis. This is where the larvae look completely different then their parents and go through a pupa stage to transform into their adult form. Let's take the example of the butterfly. After the caterpillar hatches from it's egg, it becomes an eating machine consuming it's own body weight in plant material each day... That's like me eating 580 quarter pounders each day! Anyway, as it matures into it's final stage during it's life as a caterpillar, it begins to find a good place to hold itself to a leaf or stem and throws it's skin over it's body. This form's a chrysalis (in the other insects, it'll be a pupae). Now, here's where it gets crazy. The caterpillar melts, yes melts, inside of the chrysalis into a soup. Then, all of the parts of the adult butterfly begin to form and assemble together, and after all the tissues, organs, wings, legs are in place, the end result is a butterfly. That's quite the magic trick right?
As a christian, we've all gone through a complete metamorphosis, but we don't turn into a soup during the process. You could have a past that is just downright ugly or a heart just heavy from events in your life. However, once you allow Jesus to enter your heart, He will transform you. You old heart just melts down and turns into something beautiful, and you change completely. Like a caterpillar, you transform from the inside out. Who would've thought you could learn something from an insect.

Verse of the day: "But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40:31