DAILY?READINGS: Nehemiah 4; Haggai 1; Revelation 9
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17
As you behold a beautiful butterfly lighting on a lovely flower, think of its great transformation from humble caterpillar to a fluttering creature of brilliant colour. It was once bound in a cocoon made of a silk thread 500 or more yards in length. But in that cocoon it built a valve-like exit door. In fullness of time the former caterpillar came out of that one way door into the fresh air and sunshine, into newness of life. We too have been gloriously changed. Are you a new creation in Christ Jesus? —E. MacLelland
Transformed by grace divine, the glory shall be Thine;
To Thy most holy will, O Lord, we now our all resign. —F. G. Burroughs