“So it’s time to enter into darkness,” says no one ever! As seekers of a Christ centered life we are compelled to search for the light to be filled with holiness and purity as Christ was. No one desires to be left in darkness. Not one of us with a right mind want to continue on in the state we are in, it’s only when darkness broods in our lives that our thought processes become tainted. We walk around with our caterpillar mentality thinking that we will never change. No one notices me. I will always be in this state of mind. I am just ordinary and have no purpose so I will just walk around in circles until I die.
I am hear right now speaking life! I am speaking light! I am speaking into the heart of darkness and saying, “Let there be Light!” My heart breaks that so many people are in the bondage of the caterpillar stage of life. In my first marriage I always hoped things would change, I never did anything to actually change it. God had to wait until I was desperate enough to want out. He had to wait until I desired something different. He had to be patient enough to wait until I was ready to enter into the cocoon where transformation could begin.
Now this may sound like we are going backwards, but bear with me. We are born into this world and like I said in the previous blog, we begin to eat up everything of this world, it’s like we don’t know anything different. Then one day, we have an encounter with God and we begin the healing process. We begin to believe that we have a purpose and that we are worthy of love. We start to look in the mirror and see that change is happening. We suddenly decide that change needs to continue and we surrender what we know as life to God and He begins the process.
We enter into a stage that I am calling the cocoon stage only because this is where the darkest things in our life are revealed, transformed and changed. It is in the cocoon stage that we are hidden in a darkness not like the worlds but we are hidden by God. We are protected from the influences of the outside carnal world. We reside in a place where only God can touch us and transform our thinking. He turns the “I ain’t good enough” into “I have worth”. He takes the “I am ugly” and changes it to “I am beautiful”. He takes the “I can’t” and molds it into “I can do all things through Christ!”.
Most importantly He takes our lifeless flesh bodies and turns them into wings of life and freedom. When we emerge from the cocoon at the end of the process we emerge whole and full of life. We no longer desire to eat of the world but we desire to drink in the goodness of God.
Are you tired of eating the garbage of the world? Do you have a desire to change? Do you want to be free? Happy? Joyful? Content? Then it’s time to enter the cocoon. It’s time for you to allow God to penetrate you to the core with His love, mercy and grace. Don’t be fooled by the devil into thinking that you are not worth the time it takes to change because you are. Others are waiting for your transformation process so that they too can witness the loving kindness of God.
