Just a thought by coppi

Just a thought by coppi

2 Corinthians 5:17:  therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:  The old has gone & the new is here!

Anyone who belongs to Christ is a new person.  The past is forgotten & everything is new. (Rick Warren)

I read the following article on the cicada that made a deep impression on me.  

“Magicada are periodical cicada, appearing every 13 or 17 years. The oldest insect in North America, they begin as rice-shaped eggs in the grooves of a tree. Once hatched, they fall to the ground and dig their way deep into earth. Seventeen years later, they emerge as hard-shelled, rust-colored nymphs. At first light, they climb upward to the nearest tree, picnic table, swingset, house, closest vertical surface, shed their shell.  The cicada then pulls himself free and holds on to the shell of its old self while his wings develop. In the end, all that was left was the Magicicada’s shed skin. Ghosts of who they had been piled beneath trees, scattered in the lawn, stuck in the crevices of the siding of a home, on the undersides of tree limbs—reminders of their ephemeral blessing—and a nudge from heaven to persevere through darkness.”

Unlike the cicada hanging on his old self until he develops strong wings, when we come to Christ, we are new creatures.  Our past is behind us and forgotten – but is it.  I find I still hang on to the pain, hurt, and uglies of my past.  Why I know is because if something occurs that is a reminder of what happened back then, I will actually revert back to that circumstance & feel intense pain.  Crazy I know.  Healing comes when I will allow myself to feel the pain & confess it to God & ask Him to remove  it from me.    I don’t want to be like the cicada & hang on to darkness of the past.   I want to shed that old self (skin) & become the new creature as promised by Jesus in the scriptures.  Christ in me, is the newness that will come forth.  I can shed the ghosts of the past – spread my wings and fly.