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By John Puckett
05/06/24
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From Mud to Sky

Mud is not the most attractive residence, especially if it’s mud at the bottom of a sluggish river. Unless of course, you are one of those small creatures that has an inborn conviction that mud is life.

Whatever, one summer, a tiny egg was deposited on the water’s surface. After several days, the egg hatched and a tiny larva made its instinctive route to the muddy river bottom. As it grew bigger, its tough skin split open to be replaced by a new stretch suit until that in turn needed replacing.
Eventually, two or three years later, the full-grown larva had the urge to climb the stem of a reed. Climbing higher and higher, it even dared to climb above the water’s surface. There it stayed on the stiff reed, feeling the summer sunshine warm on its back.
Soon its tough skin began to split, not to be replaced by the stretch version this time. No, something much more miraculous was happening. It was different, hugely different. The old skin parted more and more, to reveal the most delicate fabric tinted by the faintest of colours. Eventually, its fragile wings and body broke free of the old casing. Clinging to that reed, a dragonfly cautiously spread its wings and a few hours later lifted off into the free air. Over the next few weeks, as it hunted over the water and the reedbeds and the meadows, the sunshine enriched its colours into exquisite shades of rusty brown and black.
A far cry from living in the mud.

This world can sometimes seem like a sea of mud. Praise God He loves us so much that He sent Jesus to live and die to liberate us from the mud of our own sin. And beyond that, he gives us the privilege and delight of living as new creatures to reflect the beauty of Jesus to the world around us.
And there is more to come!

“Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”
1 John 3:2 NKJV

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