Just look at an egg !!
Have you ever wonder at the perfect shape of an egg, the beauty of its construction and the promise of life within and yet fail to see the hands of God at work.
The shell is so thin, yet of a consistent, precise thickness that protects the new life, or the nutritious food within. Yet it is only when the shell is broken from within by the emerging chick, or purposely broken from without to feed and sustain life, that its true value and usefulness can be appreciated. If left untouched, it eventually spoils and is cast aside.
The hatching chick must crack open the shell to enter its new world.
An egg needs to be fertilized in order to become a living creature.
Just like the hatching chick, I also need to break the resistance of my human self-sufficient "shell" by acknowledging my fallen nature and by inviting God's Holy Spirit into my heart to change me from within, so that I can enter the new world of His Spirit. Inviting God's Holy Spirit into our hearts is a matter of choice, for God Himself gave us the gift of free will.
Just like an egg needs to be fertilized, I need the mysterious power of God's Holy Spirit at work within me to become a new creature. With the Holy Spirit's help the gifts and skills God has graciously bestowed upon each of us may then be used in His service.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
(Stops & Steps 1046 21VIII2009)