HELEN SANDERS
5-27-2026
THE COCOON

If you are a lover of nature, then I know that you have seen a cocoon. The little animal, once a caterpillar, has isolated itself from everything it has known.

There are no longer any green leaves to crawl upon. There is no sunlight with the cocoon to lighten itself. It is a dark place. It is a place of change.

The Monarch butterfly stays in that dark place for nine to fourteen days. In this place of darkness, transformation takes place. Their entire body will be changed. They can no longer crawl on leaves. They are in a tight place, but will emerge from that dark place with beautiful wings. Once it leaves the cocoon it will no longer crawl. It will fly!

Life is much like that cocoon. We are told in Isaiah 14:14 that Jacob and Israel were called worms, but their redeemer would change that. We, like Jacob, are born with a sin nature. It wants to do its own thing. Then, like the caterpillar, we surrender ourselves to God and he insulates us in a cocoon to protect us in our transformation.

2 Corinthians 3::18 says, “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

God insulates us while we are isolated in that cocoon from the things of the world. During that time, we are changed into the likeness of Jesus.

By the way, never help a butterfly come out of its cocoon. It will not live. It is the struggle within the cocoon that gives it strength to live upon emerging. We must be careful not to take all the struggles out of other’s lives while God is working on them. It may destroy everything that God is doing in them.

Do not resist the “cocoon” stage of your life. That is the place that you will encounter God at your darkest moments. His work in your life will cause you to come out of that cocoon one day stronger than you were and spread your wings and fly.