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Not far from our property in Maine and being cut across by our modern paved road lay an old railroad bed. The railroad ties were gone. So were the rails. It made a nice elevated roadbed to walk on. Maybe the adults knew. We kids 'didn't know where it came from or where it was going. We figured that when the horses and buggies came along, they abandoned the train. Modern progress. (ha).
There was one part of this roadbed where still water lay on both sides. Interesting things happened in that water. When we first noticed, they looked like hundreds and hundreds of minnows swimming around. Fat little fishes.
The next time we observed that these little fishes had a pair of hind legs. Strange... Later, we saw that they had a pair of front legs. Seemed like every time we went there a CHANGE had taken place. Subsequently, they were hopping all over the place. They were frogs! There is a scientific name for the CHANGES. And therefore it must have a long name: METAMORHOSIS. Those frogs surely had metamorphosized. And they all hopped to Mrs. Aldrich's well, located alongside the abandoned railroad bed. We knew that because there were zillions of frogs in that well. Even some pretty ones.
There are many ideas in the Bible that are not all that clear. But SPIRITUAL METAMORHOSIS is not one of them.
A spiritual encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ changes things. "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be TRANSFORMED (CHANGED) by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is---His good, pleasing, and perfect will." Rom 12:2.
"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all REFLECT the Lord's glory, are being TRANSFORMED into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit." 2 Cor 3:17,18. "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness. Through these He has given us His very great and precious PROMISES, so that through them you may PARTICIPATE in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. " 2 Pet 1:3,4.
The Word of God clearly indicates that God had a SPIRITUAL METAMORPHOSIS in mind for us... May each of us PARTICIPATE fully...
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