The "In Christ" Metamorphosis

b) External Circumstances: The families that we have been born into are not of our choice and it is definitely God ordained. I can’t decide whom my children or husband’s family are going to be – they just “happen”! And similarly ‘External Circumstances’ are not of our “Choice” or “Desire” but situations that we have been put into. No one wants an abusive father or an incestuous brother but if that is the circumstance they’ve landed in then its ‘external’. External circumstances can have a very strong influence upon an individual’s life and most of the times that’s what tends to determine a person’s character, behavior and personality, tends to almost determine their destiny.

This is what Christ wants to change – He wants to change your destiny. Amen & Amen! Like bondage and chains around your feet, as a cocoon, your external circumstances tend to tie you down and dictate your future to you. There will be people that will good intentionally have you as a “baby worm” inside a “cocoon” instead of letting you soar high and flutter your wings as a pretty butterfly. You’ve got to get out of the cocoon.

I’m here to tell you to break free from all the circumstances that life has brought across your path and to shake yourself, O captive daughter of Zion, put on your strength and march forth in Jesus’ name. If someone speaks negatively and condescendingly to you, “BREAK FREE”, if your friends do not build you up but tear you down “BREAK FREE”, if you are being abused or see adultery and fornication trying to lock you up “BREAK FREE”. These are only chains that want to hold you down so that your beauty cannot be shown!

c) Internal Circumstances: When saying Internal circumstances I mean the actual, real person – YOU, Your internal makeup, your personality, your likes and dislikes. These are in your hands to change. Of course it is definitely influenced by all that happens around you but this is ONE thing YOU CAN CHANGE. Sometimes there are certain behavior patterns in our lives that keep setting us up for defeat instead of success and its not anyone else’s fault but our very own and we need to break away from that cycle once we recognize it. For example, grumbling and murmuring is something that we can change and replace with gratitude.

Years back I was a really negative person, very unhappy too. Anything that ever happened, I could easily pick out the negative from it instead of the positive. I could see what shouldn’t have happened instead of the good that is happening. And I needed to change “ME” and my perspective and see things through God’s eyes. I needed to break from the cocoon of negativity and fly in the air of positivists and faith. I am enjoying where I am right now. Hallelujah!

What are the Internal Circumstances that you are waiting to break forth from? Are they tormenting you as you lay down to sleep at night? Do you want your very nature to change? Jesus Christ can do that in a jiffy only if you stay connected to Him.

The Inside Person you can either change or make the Cocoon a Tomb or a Grave, else you can use it as a launch pad to get closer to God, to draw near to the Lover of your Soul. You can let it KILL you or Break free and CHANGE you.