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Our Father, the God of Creation, offers each of us a new home on earth and in Heaven. When we commit our lives to Jesus our new home or body begins to change into the image of our Savior. New Home for the ButterflyWhen I was a child, I had a butterfly collection. Each butterfly was beautiful in its own way. Butterflies have long symbolized the Christian life. Butterflies reveal the miracle of successive life forms. The butterfly starts as a sluggish caterpillar. The larva spins a cocoon around itself; then it goes through metamorphosis on his trip to the new home. After the proper time, the humble larva emerges in a new home as a beautiful butterfly. The transformation represents the life change for a person living without God into a person living for God. People in the world start out as caterpillars. They seem alive but have a limited outlook on life. They only live for what they can consume today. Paul states that we need to die to have life (Rom. 6:7, 8). When the larva enters the cocoon and cuts off the world around him, the transformation begins. The creature then breaks out into new life represented by his new home. This symbolizes our passage from spiritual death to new freedom in Christ. New Home and New Spiritual EarthWhen Jesus died on the cross, he began a new order of creation. He created a new spiritual Heaven and a new spiritual earth (Isa. 65:17–19). The cross put in effect the beginning of a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17). Because the Creator has viewed all time in a glance, he saw as completed … a new heaven and a new earth.
New Home for the old Chapel We live in a limited environment. We believe in God and his spiritual principles by faith. The Almighty doesn’t take us to his Throne and show us his view of our new home. Yet, he gives us glimpses through the Bible and by the witness of the Holy Spirit. Although we haven’t seen our Lord, we love him, and we know that he loves us (1 Pet. 1:8, 9). Our Father gives us faith and encourages each of us to trust him. Because of the restrictions on earth, our best efforts seem less than sufficient. Yet, God gives us a living hope that all will end well. Jesus spoke from the cross, “It is finished.” From that moment, God verified the beginning of a new covenant or our new home, in the spiritual realms. Man couldn’t see it or feel it, but God spoke it and made it true. We have walked by faith not by sight. The cross of redemption eliminated the barrier between man and God. When Jesus sacrificed himself, the power of the Holy Spirit ripped the heavy veil in the old covenant Temple. This revealed that the barrier of sin between man and his Creator was gone. The shed blood of the Savior opened the way into the Holy of Holies for each of his children (Heb. 10:19–23). After we accept the grace of salvation, God begins to change our old home into a new home. The Bible says that when we are in Christ we become new creatures (2 Cor. 5:17).Holy Lord, we thank you for changing our minds, spirits, and bodies into a new home or creature here on earth. We wait with anticipation for the first look at our new home in Heaven. Text of, New Home, from page 297, 299 of "Walking Through Revelation With a Common Man" |
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