This Month’s Theme

As we prepare our hearts and minds for the new year and what God has for us, here is the theme He gave us to bring to the prisons we enter in January . . .

The Gospel of the Butterfly

  

As the caterpillar begins its life earthbound and crawls around unaware of its purpose for which it was born, so too, we go through our lives before Christ earthbound and unaware of our purpose for which God made us. We see with wormlike eyes, think wormlike thoughts, and live wormlike lives. But then, for the caterpillar, the change occurs once they crawl up that tree, hang itself upside down, and begin that change into a butterfly. The same happens with us. Not that we crawl up a tree and hang upside down, but for some, a miracle happens . . . we/they come to a place where we/they encounter Jesus and make a decision to die to the old self, to the earthbound, wormlike life, and in our/their dying to our/their old self we/they begin a metamorphosis. What emerges is a different life, a new creation, beautiful and no longer earthbound but now heavenly! The new birth. The new creation! May this month of January and 2025 bring new life to many!

Here are some Scriptures that can go with this theme: Romans 6:4-8; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 4:22-32.