TRANSFORMATION

The sight of a caterpillar, to a long hibernation in a cocoon, until a formation of beauty arises, breaks out of it shell into what it truly is meant to be; as they really are. Remembering it's old self, but not desiring to turn back to the old and limited self. It has inherited freedom in what you can almost refer to as new life. It has broken free and now; the boundaries that it has crossed over has been beyond ever imagined. In the midst of controversy, solutions spark in new light. It takes form in foreign alternatives; foreign, but a restored discovered good. Originally, our norm would be to argue, desire correctness for the sake of self reputation, to fight to prove our capability, to act to prove our ability, to keep a grudge in order that the other person would give in first - but what now? Our conscientiousness become twirled around one-eighty degrees, responding in, what? Humility? Patience? From outside the window, we look and laugh at such responses, but everything inside speaks to us into conforming to everything that is rejected - everything that brings to us persecution.

"Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart....Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are member one of another....And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you."
Ephesians 4:17-32

In order to gain new life. we have to lose our old life. As we go through this short process of renewal and this long term process of restoration, we are crying out in desperation whether we are in a time of unconscious discontent or a time of running through the fire. A strange feeling but strong sense of desire to live in opposition to the accepted standard, but ironically finding joy in conforming to such an extraordinary taste of fruit. At the taste of fruit, there comes the returning to in a continuum to what first gives you an unconditional satisfaction. The Spirit of transformation can not go solo. There is a need for simultaneous recognition of a remaking, a need for the conscious sight of shaping; that sight by the supernatural, the creator and the potter, the "I AM."

When such happens, there will be an additional response of persistence; such as in a marathon when runners run their race for the sake of the prize and the end (1 Corinthians 9:24). Transformation lasts until the day Jesus will be back - in the hands of the Savior at birth, in the hands of the Savior at the establishment of salvation; hopefully for all being transformed,.
I believe Lord.