So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! 2 Corinthians 5:17

 

Dear Lord,

Thank you for giving us life and hope. Help us to soar with wings of joy as we do the tasks you have given us today.

In your name we pray, Amen

Have you ever watched an insect change from an egg, to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis, to a butterfly? Look at pictures or a video of how these changes happen.

The butterfly begins as a tiny egg.  From the egg, a larva emerges.  The larva eats and grows and eventually forms a chrysalis.  For days, as it grows, it remains quiet inside a delicate shell.  Then, it emerges as a fully developed butterfly.  After pumping fluid into its wings, that amazingly different looking insect takes flight.

The change from a larva, a worm like creature, to a lifeless looking chrysalis, to the emergence of a magnificent, winged butterfly has often been used as a symbol of the resurrection.

We are earthbound creatures with limited views of what the future might bring.  Christ promises us a new body which will not know the limitations we have now.  The butterfly symbolizes this change from an earthbound creature into a new form.

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Bible verses taken from the New Revised Standard Version