TADPOLES TO FROGS
Some years ago, I stood beside a creek, where a little five-year-old friend was playing. Noticing a bunch of tadpoles, I scooped one up in my hand and showed it to him. “See this tadpole–it will turn into a frog,” I ooked up at me with the same wrinkled brow, shook his finger at me and repeated forcefully, “No, it won’t!” When I thought about what I’d described, It was pretty hard to believe! The process is called “metamorphosis” in biology, the changing of one natural form into another. It is the same Greek word used in the Gospels to describe the transfiguration of Jesus while He prayed on the mountain, when “his face shone like the sun, and his garments became white as light.” When it comes to understanding this, we are all spiritual five-year-olds. No less wonderful is a second meaning for “metamorphosis”–what the dictionary calls a “transformation of character,” which the living Christ brings into the lives of…
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