35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
In order to know the power and reality of resurrection we must first of all know the power and reality of death. Something must always die before it is to be born again. It must wither in its fall of life, die, be buried and lost forever in its former nature before its new nature can spring forth. This is true not only for our physical bodies, but in fact for all things. Resurrection without death is simply not possible. The death of what is must come and all that is must be grieved in order for all that will be can be embraced.
It is Spring and before too long the butterfly eggs will begin hatching into larvae. But a butterfly larvae was not created to be a larvae -- which can only crawl. It was created to be a butterfly -- which can fly. So in order for it to become what it was created to be the butterfly larvae must cocoon. It was say goodbye to its former state and all that it knows in order to embrace what it does not. In a very real sense, the larvae must die so that the butterfly can be born.
"There is a time and season for everything under the heavens," the writer of Ecclesiastes says, "a time to sow and a time to harvest, a time to be born and a time to die." Wisdom is knowing what time it is, and being ready, when it is time, to die to what is now so that what is next can be discovered -- not only under heaven, but also in.
The butterfly was made to fly in the heavens and not just crawl on the earth.
Fly butterfly, fly.
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