Today, I did some office cleaning. I have an office in the lower level of our townhome, and it was time to straighten and clean. It’s been time for some time now, but only today I had the urge to actually get to it.
It didn’t take long. My office is not large, and it wasn’t a living nightmare like some offices. But it feels better knowing that the job is done, at least until it gets messy again.
Life is a lot like that. (You just knew I would get to some kind of a life application, didn’t you?) We procrastinate cleaning out the closets of our lives, yet when we finally get around to cleaning out the cobwebs, something happens. We feel lighter, more free, and generally are a better person to be around.
There are also those things in our lives that seem to be intractably bound to us. Try as we might, we just cannot seem to get rid of them. Like mold in the bathtub or roaches in the kitchen, they just seem to perpetuate, pupate, and propagate. That’s when we need help. For Christians, that help is the God of the Bible and His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Others have other means and ways to clean out the unclean-able. The question is, what works and what doesn’t? What gets it squeaky clean, and what just moves the dirt from one corner to another?
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Pupate: To become a 'pupa'. To go through a pupal stage.
Pupa: The nonfeeding stage between the larva and adult in the metamorphosis of holometabolous insects, during which the larva typically undergoes complete transformation within a protective cocoon or hardened case.
Actually, you certainly could describe Christians at times in their lives as pupating - to pupate is not a bad thing. I mean, isn't the whole goal to have Him completely transform us? And that's why sometimes we feel the need to withdraw, we're placing ourselves inside a little protective shell as we're going through it. You must excuse me now, I feel a cocoon coming on...
I debated on the use of that word. The intent there was to describe something that was ensconced...dug in...hard to get rid of.
The other way to look at it is the way you did, and that is certainly appropriate, both for the transforming part as well as the protection and shelter part.
The blog for the 11th of January reminds me a little of cocooning in memories of pleasant times past and gone.
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