Unpacking The Metamorphosis: A Deep Dive into Transformation and Its Impact

When I was asked to share something with the Bible Study group at our Christmas party, I wasn’t sure what was to be shared, so the leader said to share my born again experience. Later, another sister  and I were having a conversation with a couple of people, and one of them said to me: “Betty, you are a social butterfly.”

Wow! A light bulb went on and that confirmed that I was to share about the caterpillar (which is ugly to me- my sinful past), and how it turned into a beautiful butterfly, which was a transformation, or metamorphosis. Once the caterpillar turns into a butterfly, it can never be a caterpillar again.

My testimony- I grew up in church, was baptized; sung in the choir and ushered. Shortly before the age of eighteen, I decided to move to NYC the Big Apple, a city that never sleeps, and is well lit with bright lights. An aunt who lived in the Bronx took me in and I was basically under her mentorship, which was necessary being that I was in a big city and didn’t know a thing about it.

A few years later I resided I Jersey City with my daddy and his wife. From there to Camden and Philadelphia. Years later Greensboro became my home again. After being back there for approximately eleven years, I had a true born again experience.

On Monday, March 15, 1982, I was in a house alone when the Holy Spirit baptized me into Jesus Christ and He became my Savior, and my Lord. That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation (Romans 10:9-10).

 For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast (Ephesians 2:8-9).

I was transformed; had a metamorphosis experience that forever changed my life; I’m a new creature, no longer the same). There was the initial transformation of becoming a new person -  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17);  

And there is the ongoing transformation-  

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1-2), as I yield to the Holy Spirit.

His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org