Romans 12:2, “Let God transform you into a new person.” The original Greek word for transform is metamorphoo. This is where we get the word metamorphosis. And this is the image of what God can and will do in your life. A complete metamorphosis – you won’t look anything like you used to look. You won’t move the way you used to move. You won’t think the way you used to think. Your old limits will no longer hold you back.
Just as a butterfly is no longer the caterpillar it used to be. It no longer crawls on the ground, it flies through the air. It’s radically changed. Transformed. Metamorphosis. God’s work of transformation!
We are surrounded by earthly reminders of heavenly transformational powers at work. What we have just accepted as normal shouts the miraculous truths of our creator and his desire to transform things.
How many of us at this moment are wearing a diamond? Have you ever given thought to who created that diamond? That was God’s creation. He made that. And do you know how he made that diamond you wear today? A really long, hard process.
Most natural diamonds are between 1 and 3 billion years old, formed deep within the earth, 100 miles below surface. Minerals under extreme pressures and extreme heat became the jewels which we treasure today, eventually brought to the surface in volcanic eruptions. (And that’s the jewel chosen to represent the bond of marriage – You didn’t realize that when you said yes, did you? Extreme difficulty, pressure and hardship – that’s a diamond.)
Diamonds are valued because of what they had to go through. And what they went through now represents luxury and love. That was a long hard process of difficult change and none of it was by accident. God designed that.
John 1:3 says “Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ”
This was God in action, and it began long, long, long ago. Think about this – God knew the exact diamond you wear today would be YOURS when he began forming it over a billion years ago. WOAH.
Now remember, we’re dealing with a God who could have turned corn into diamonds. He could have had them grow out of your ears if he wished. But I believe our mighty God and his ways are revealed in creation. This is how he works. He is the God of change. He is the God of the impossible. The God of transformation and metamorphosis. He takes something from deep within and through a process he forms and changes it into something precious.
Isn’t that what God has been doing with you? You may not like the process, but you’re in the middle of it. The pressure and the heat in your life are serving a tremendous purpose, a purpose to change that which seems unwanted and unimportant and turn it into something of tremendous value.
Again, Romans 12:2, “Let God transform you into a new person.”
Have you ever thought of your value and worth? You, individually, how much are you worth? Scripture says in Isaiah 43:4 that we are precious in his eyes, we are honored and God loves us. The same God who made every single diamond made you and said you are more precious.
The most expensive jewel to ever be sold at auction was a 60 carat flawless pink diamond which sold for $83.2 million. Then there’s the most precious diamond which is part of the British Crown Jewels. This 105 carat diamond is considered literally priceless and some say it’s value is 3.5 times the wealth of the whole world.
And then there’s you. YOU, you are more precious and valuable than even this diamond. Than all the diamonds in the world combined. You know what you’re worth? You’re worth the price of a son. And for those listening who have a child of your own, you know that’s a price you’re simply not willing to pay for anything. Your child.