The Ugly Tadpole

The Ugly Tadpole

Adapted from YGC Prayer Bulletin Vol. 35 Issue 2

"Letter to an Incomplete, Insecure Teenager" by Pastor John Piper.

Note: Some of the contents here had not been paraphrased and was copied without permission. I just want to share this with no other intention of whatsoever. HAHA. Enjoy.

Once upon a time, there was an ugly tadpole living in an enchanted pond. The ugly tadpole longs to be a beautiful butterfly instead of a wiggly, wobbly, slimy, unsecured, self-absorbed, introverted half of a fish-like creature. But as he grows up his looks became weirder and weirder. First, little teeny legs pop out from his sides, then later two more from behind and then to complete it off, a grossly looking humped back. His other fish friends have already left him behind because they thought that the tadpole had became uglier. Now, a half-developed frog fits nowhere. But God is good. He has a plan for every tadpoles, toads and frogs. Little did the toad knows that his change is not a mutation but a metamorphosis to something bigger and stronger! He may not turn into a butterfly, as he has already accepted, but he may turn into something useful. Something that God can use as an instrument as long as he will just set his eyes on the Lord and all of His glory instead of his own slime and imperfections.

So Love and Believe in God because He has more great froggy things for you. Your joy comes from what you see. We are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared. There is another metamorphosis awaiting. It just gets better and better, God is infinite. So there will always be more of His glory for a finite mind to see. There will be no boredom in eternity.

A Story of Life.

Stranger Passing-By

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