Changed in a Moment (a summer devotion)

“Behold I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:51

“Mom! I caught some tadpoles today! Can I keep them? Please, mom, please!” My 12 year old son exclaimed these words as he ran through the front door of my house with a jar of murky creek water in his hands. My son had been playing in a nearby creek on this hot summer day and he had managed to catch five small grayish colored tadpoles. After researching the topic, I reluctantly agreed to let him keep his new found pets. What fun we had that summer. We changed the tadpole water regularly, taking care to declorinate the new water and we fed them lettuce that had been boiled and then frozen. Over the course of a few weeks, our tadpoles grew first back legs and then front ones. At long last, they lost their tails.Their color altered too as the tadpoles changed into small, bright green tree toads. The scriptures tell us that if we are believers, we too will someday be changed. However, our change will not be slow like my son’s tadpoles were. No, our change will be quick, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. We will change from perishable to imperishable; from mortal to immortal. What exciting news. I wonder if God will have as much fun watching us change as my son and I had watching his tadpoles change?