Did you really give Him a chance?

God speaks in mysterious ways. Take for instance the Skillet concert my wife and I attended last night, which I might add was a truly rockin’ concert. Near the end of the concert Skillet lead singer John Cooper gave a message that hit harder than many preachers Sunday morning sermons. To my surprise I found this message speaking right into the directions I have been seeing with the idea of a “Metamorphosis of the human soul”. What was it he said? “If you say that you gave God a chance but He just didn’t do anything for you, then you really didn’t give God a chance, you may have given church a chance, but if you really give God a chance you can’t help but be changed.”

This fits perfectly into the Metamorphosis analogy. You see you can not enter into the cocoon (give your life to Jesus) and not come out changed. Have you ever heard of a caterpillar spinning a cocoon and then emerging later still a caterpillar? Of course not, it is impossible for a caterpillar to emerge from the cocoon unchanged. So it is when we give our lives over to Christ, we simply cannot give our life over to God and remain unchanged, it cannot happen.

So if you find your self believing that you have already given God a chance, but that He simply didn’t make a difference in you life then I would encourage you to really give Him a chance this time. Because if you honestly open yourself to Christ, if you allow Him full access in your life, and don’t try and make Him fit your mold, don’t try and turn Him into some sort of cosmic vending machine, you will find yourself changed; I guarantee it.



And in the words of Skillet. “This is the last night you’ll spend alone. Look me in the eyes so I know you know, I’m everywhere you want me to be. The last night you spend alone, I’ll wrap you in my arms, and I won’t let go; I’m everything you need me to be.”