Daily Word - Afterwards

Daily Word - Afterwards
 
We can look around ourselves and see the evidence of God's amazing plan
in creation ... and how He has fashioned so many things that must
transform in His wondrous design ... the caterpillar to the chrysalis,
to the butterfly ... the tadpole to the legged pollywog, to the frog ...
the carbon from coal, to the beautiful diamond stone.

And similarly ... all of us have been born into this world ...
descendants of sin and flesh ... worldly in nature ... but created in
the divine image of God.  And like the butterfly ... we die to our flesh
have become a new creature in Christ.  Then our transformation ... our
sanctification ... continues as the Holy Spirit finishes His work in us
... until that day that we are glorified together with Christ ... and
God's awesome design for each of us will be complete ... forever.

Psalm 73: 24
You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

1 Corinthians 15: 46
That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and
afterward that which is spiritual.

Ephesians 4: 24
You put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and
true holiness.