Francis Chan, in his latest literary masterpiece, offers a compelling narrative that I want to share with you
this morning --
Francis, writing on the subject of the Holy Spirit uses metamorphism when he said, “Can you imagine the confusion a caterpillar must experience. For all its caterpillar life, it crawls around a small patch of dirt and up and down a few plants. Then one day it takes a nap. And then, what in the world must go through its head when it wakes up to discover it can fly? What happened to its dirty, plump little worm body? What does it think when it sees its tiny new body and gorgeous wings?
As believers, we ought to experience this same kind of astonishment when the Holy Spirit enters our bodies. We should be stunned in disbelief over becoming a ‘new creation’ with the Spirit of God living in us. As the caterpillar finds it news ability to fly, we should be thrilled over our Spirit-empowered ability to live differently and faithfully. Isn’t this what the Scriptures speak of? Isn’t this what we’ve all been longing for?
It really is an astounding truth that the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. He lives in me. I do not know what the Spirit will do or where He will lead me each time I invite 
Him to guide me. But I am tired of living in a way that looks exactly like people who do not have the Holy Spirit of God living in them. I want to consistently live with an awareness of His strength, I want to be different today from what I was yesterday as the fruit of the Spirit becomes more manifest in me.”
I pray that each of us realize daily the power of the Holy Spirit’s grace at work in our lives!
We do not want to keep crawling when we have the ability to fly!
Peace and blessings to you and yours!
