Thursday, May 17, 2012
Perseverance through Trials
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come." 2 Cor. 5:17
I want to explain why I wrote the poem I posted last week and why I titled my blog "Emergence from the Chrysalis"
Recently, butterflies have been a reoccurent theme in my life. At first, I thought it was a coincidence, but then I began to feel as if God was using butterflies to communicate with me.
The beautiful array of color butterflies possesses coupled with thier affiliation with freedom facinates me, but it is neither the beauty nor the free spirit of these creatures that compels me the most. Rather, I am most facinated by the transformation process of catepillar to butterfly. I am facinated that catepilliars spend a significant amount of time in a dark waiting period (their cacoon). Then out of thier darkness, they lose a portion of themselves and become a more vibrant, and beautiful being.
"More than that we rejoice, in our sufferings, knowing that sufferings produces endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope." Romans 5:3-4
Often times, we fight this transformation stage, because God often uses trials to transform us into the person he wants us to be.God wants us to draw closer to him during these dark times in our lives, but sometimes we use pain as an excuse to withdraw from God, making the pain worse.
I have mentioned in earlier posts that I have been stuggling with depression. I have been praying that things in my life would get better, but could not understand why my life was not changing the way I wanted it too. I finally began to accept the fact that maybe it is not time for things to get better yet. Maybe God is using this time period in my life to make me a stronger person.
"And we know that in all things God works for the goodof those who love him, and have been
called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28
If you are struggling through a dark time in your life, I encourage you to embrace this period . Turn to God and ask him to show you what you can learn from this stage in your life. Draw closer to him. Remeber that this dark season in your life will pass. Like the butterfly, God has a beautiful destiny unique to you that you get to in time
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The first step is acceptance. We cannot emerge from the darkness until we begin to realize we are surrounded by it. We cannot see God's guiding light if we aren't looking for it. The easiest thing to do in life is deny what is the truth. However, we can look around us and find the light of God's undying faith in us remove ourselves from the darkness. You and I will get through it all because God put people here on earth for us to remind us that all we need to do is remember our faith in God and he will always help us. Thank you for being a constant reminder that God is still there and has faith in me even if no one else does.
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