"The Bride and the Butterfly"
JESUS
(to the Bride)
"Why feel discouraged, My Bride?
Why feel ashamed of the sins you hide?
Nobody's perfect, although you've tried.
You just need time to grow inside.
As a butterfly, its old form has died,
So you'll transform when you have flied.
Yes, I've counted the tears you've cried,
From times when the enemy has lied.
As caterpillars in a chrysalis, so in Me, abide.
You won't stay this way, My Bride."
As a monarch butterfly, so you'll be;
It won't be long 'til you're set free.
As a moth caterpillar in a cocoon;
So in time, you'll change and fly soon.
*monarch: A person who reigns over a kingdom, such as a king or queen
And if children, also heirs—heirs of God and coheirs with Christ
(Romans 8:17 HCSB; Gal. 4:7; Gal. 3:29; Titus 3:7)
If we endure, we will also reign with Him
(2 Timothy 2:12; Rev. 20:6; Rev. 5:10; Rev. 22:5)
What you sow is not the body that is to be. (It does not have the same body it will have later.) God will give us a body that He has planned/chosen.
(1 Corinthians 15:37-38)
By Jennifer Lynn O'Connor
