Think Like a Butterfly

One butterfly says to the other butterfly, “True, you’re a butterfly now, but you still think like a caterpillar.”

Sound familiar? Our identities are bound up in the story we tell ourselves.

Is your desire to do the work you do with confidence and excellence?

Then approach it with those goals in mind. Stay educated. Learn new ways to improve yourself so you can grow in confidence and manage your institution with excellence.

Don’t think about being better.

Think different.

My Bible paints a different picture of who God says you are, and how you should think about yourself. It tells me in Ephesians 2:10, “You are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”

What does your Bible say?

In Philippians 4:8 the apostle Paul exhorts us, “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”

Start thinking of yourself as a saint whom God is transforming into the image, or identity, of His beloved son.

When you think of yourself in God’s terms, you’ll speak about yourself in God’s words — as a beloved and cherished member of God’s new family.

I don’t know about you, but I would rather live with the promise of the future state instead of in the hopelessness of the past.