Reformation - Original Painting
Original Acrylic Painting, Float-Framed
63cm H x 43 cm W, Gloss Varnished
Inside the Chrysalis, we are Re-Formed.
During worship, I saw a Chrysalis. Just like pebbles fall into a pond and cause ripples, a Word from God falls into our heart and causes reverberations in our spirit. In the chrysalis, this was happening and when the ripples reached the edge and doubled back, a solidification occurred so that a ‘point’ of becoming a butterfly happened there in the soupy mush inside the cocoon. We once were a grub, looking only to consume and relegated to the earth but we become a glorious flying being. Mouthparts made to chomp on leaves are now a proboscis that can only feed on nectar.
Eventually, these transformed organs joined up and a fully formed butterfly was ready to emerge.
I thought about the process. I wonder what the butterfly sees or dreams of as it is being transformed. It is a ‘re-formation’ because the creature forms anew. It’s a ‘transformation’ because it becomes an entirely ‘other’ being. But in us, it’s really a ‘Christ--formation’ because Christ is being formed in us. In the prayer closet, we go to mush before God. He reshapes us into His own IMAGE as we behold Him.
Original Acrylic Painting, Float-Framed
63cm H x 43 cm W, Gloss Varnished
Inside the Chrysalis, we are Re-Formed.
During worship, I saw a Chrysalis. Just like pebbles fall into a pond and cause ripples, a Word from God falls into our heart and causes reverberations in our spirit. In the chrysalis, this was happening and when the ripples reached the edge and doubled back, a solidification occurred so that a ‘point’ of becoming a butterfly happened there in the soupy mush inside the cocoon. We once were a grub, looking only to consume and relegated to the earth but we become a glorious flying being. Mouthparts made to chomp on leaves are now a proboscis that can only feed on nectar.
Eventually, these transformed organs joined up and a fully formed butterfly was ready to emerge.
I thought about the process. I wonder what the butterfly sees or dreams of as it is being transformed. It is a ‘re-formation’ because the creature forms anew. It’s a ‘transformation’ because it becomes an entirely ‘other’ being. But in us, it’s really a ‘Christ--formation’ because Christ is being formed in us. In the prayer closet, we go to mush before God. He reshapes us into His own IMAGE as we behold Him.
Original Acrylic Painting, Float-Framed
63cm H x 43 cm W, Gloss Varnished
Inside the Chrysalis, we are Re-Formed.
During worship, I saw a Chrysalis. Just like pebbles fall into a pond and cause ripples, a Word from God falls into our heart and causes reverberations in our spirit. In the chrysalis, this was happening and when the ripples reached the edge and doubled back, a solidification occurred so that a ‘point’ of becoming a butterfly happened there in the soupy mush inside the cocoon. We once were a grub, looking only to consume and relegated to the earth but we become a glorious flying being. Mouthparts made to chomp on leaves are now a proboscis that can only feed on nectar.
Eventually, these transformed organs joined up and a fully formed butterfly was ready to emerge.
I thought about the process. I wonder what the butterfly sees or dreams of as it is being transformed. It is a ‘re-formation’ because the creature forms anew. It’s a ‘transformation’ because it becomes an entirely ‘other’ being. But in us, it’s really a ‘Christ--formation’ because Christ is being formed in us. In the prayer closet, we go to mush before God. He reshapes us into His own IMAGE as we behold Him.
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