08/22/2022
“If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.” Luke 9:24 NLT
Found this beautiful butterfly laying on a pathway just seconds after I asked god to take a battle from me. It didn’t appear to be injured just by looking at it. I realized it was dead the moment I was going to pick it up, and instantly I felt God. This butterfly sacrificed its own life to take what I was praying for god to remove from mine.
For a few moments I thought let me keep this butterfly so I can preserve it, have it last forever. God then spoke by saying: Beautiful things are not meant to last forever, they are meant to be set free for when they are set free the beauty of things then become even more beautiful, but if we hold onto them to preserve the beauty that exists, we prevent the light from transforming them into something even more beautiful than they already are. Letting go and into the hands of god allows room for transformation to occur, for rebirth to take place, for new life to be created, along with new beauty to be witnessed. The beauty of God is all around us; let us not hold onto the beauty, that is free; rather allow the beauty of God to transform.
God is not forcing his presence into our lives and saying let me help you; instead he’s asking how may I help you? Listen carefully and invite God to help you with your battles. Surrender them into gods hands, he’s waiting for you to ask. Ask, and you shall receive, Listen, and you shall hear, Let go; and with the guidance of God, you shall be free to transform.