Be Ye Transformed

Yesterday, following my sarcastic ramblings, I found myself confronted with Romans 12:2.

While it might have been a spiritual intervention to the manner with which I addressed the topic at hand, I found myself inspired down a completely different thought path.

Now this could have had something to do with what I was watching, but I cannot say that for a fact.

You see my mind seemed to be hovering around the "Be Ye Transformed" part of the verse. Before I knew it, I was starting to think about that part of the verse in reference to the discussion on the TV about the metamorphosis of a butterfly.

I like to think of certain circumstances we face in life as a sort of cocoon phase in which we get to be set apart from everyone else, and God gets to work His magic into our lives as He gently prods us on our way to a complete transformation.

Like the experience of drastic change, I imagine that the cocoon stage is at once exciting and scary, but once one makes it through that stage, the transformation breeds both strength and character.

It is key therefore to understand that the cocoon stage is only for a season. We should never assume that it marks the finale.

So be ye transformed and take it in good stride.


I Bid You Shalom,



Jacqueline