Invasion of the Body Snatchers

If you read my last post then you already know I am a little ‘off’ at times.

What can I say? My mind works in strange and mysterious ways. I’ve been at it again this week.

I was reflecting on this passage:

If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. John 15:19

It hit me anew that when we are transformed by the Holy Spirit we are not just remodeled like an old house, where new structures are added on top of the old.

Scripture puts it this way:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. II Corinthians 5:17

We are entirely new creatures. Now this is where my mind started down a rabbit warren of its own. You see it occurred to me that this new creature is entirely alien to the world. Are you still with me? Do you see what this means? I am an alien! If you are bothering to read this then I would venture to guess that you are also an alien.

We are in this world but we are not of it. It is sort of like a very positive version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Physically I looked the same way before I received the Holy Ghost as I did afterward. But inwardly there was birthed a new being. A babe in Christ. I became a carrier ready to infect others with alien seed.

Okay so it may sound a little creepy to the uninitiated but you see this change that happened to me isn’t a negative in any way shape or form. You see God only looks for willing ‘victims’. This change is incredible and unlike other alien races you may have seen on TV, we’re not here to destroy the human race, but to preserve it. Think of us as an advanced race with technology critical to survival. We know the secret to eternal life-and it is a gift freely given. Who could pass that up?

So who would you like to snatch back from Hell?