Dragonflies: Predators Born in the Water

Adult dragonflies are beautifully colored, fast moving, long bodied insects. They hunt flies, midges, butterflies, bees, moths, mosquitos, and other dragonflies. They also fly in all directions.

Today I’m going to tell you about my favorite stage of the dragonfly, the nymph. At first when they hatch as eggs they’re more like worms than bugs. When they get bigger they grow those legs, and become one of the smallest predators in swamps. Nymphs will hunt almost anything they can catch and fit in their mouths, like mosquito larvae, tadpoles or minnows. Fossils of both adult dragonflies and nymphs have been found, evidence for the existence of Noah’s flood, about 4,300 years ago.

One day, at the Colombia river gorge, I found a dragonfly nymph on my satchel, but I accidently lost it’s old skin it crawled out of. It was in process of the last stages of it’s life cycle, so it could become a dragonfly. It will do this several times. The nymph was not finished yet, but in the end, it will turn into a creature of God’s beauty and glory. It’s the same with our spiritual lives. God’s not done working things in our lives, but He says,

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” Philippians 1:6

The true beauty comes not from our physical appearance, but from the heart. “For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart”. 1 Samuel 16:7

We all can be encouraged to grow spiritually by finding out what pleases the Lord. God bless.