Part 5 ~ Metamorphosis: The Process of Transformation

TRANSFORMATION:  A thorough and dramatic change in form or appearance.
  • a metamorphosis during the life cycle
  • the induced or spontaneous change of one element into another by a nuclear process

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C.S. Lewis left his childhood Christian faith to spend years as a determined atheist. After finally admitting God existed, Lewis gave in and knelt in prayer to become what he described later as “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.”

Lewis’s long journey away from, and back to, faith began with his mother’s death from cancer when he was a boy. Disillusioned that God had not healed his mother, Lewis set out on a path toward full-bodied rationalism and atheism.

The road back to faith was cluttered with obstacles Lewis once thought impossible to overcome. His conversion to a robust Christianity required years of intellectual struggle and came only after being convinced that faith was reasonable.

Robert B. Stewart, CBN

“Capturing the beauty of the conversion of the water into wine, the poet Alexander Pope said, “The conscious water saw its Master and blushed.” That sublime description could be reworked to explain each one of these miracles. Was it any different in principle for a broken body to mend at the command of its Maker? Was it far-fetched for the Creator of the universe, who fashioned matter out of nothing, to multiply bread for the crowd? Was it not within the power of the One who called all the molecules into existence to interlock them that they might bear His footsteps?”

—Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message

 

enduranceJesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Matthew 19:26 NIV