- Eleven symbolizes the second-last stage of metamorphosis. If you compare it to a butterfly, its first stage is the egg stage. The second is the stage when its a larva which appears as a caterpillar. During that stage it only eats and eats, is heavy and destructive, it is not of much beauty, as it builds itself up. Pray that the past season where you, your family, or church may have been feeling unproductive, useless and ungainly God will show you how He wants you to operate as you feed and feed (Psalm 23;1-3, 81:10, Jeremiah 15:16).
- After a while the caterpillar will hide itself under a rock or leaf, form a cocoon, and sort of dry up and stay in that cocoon for a period. What happens is that due to intense heat and pressure created by the cocoon, the caterpillar basically disintegrates, becomes fluid and shapeless. If you accidentally break a pupa, fluid flows out. Its no longer a caterpillar and has no form or shape or order. It is the beginning of the making season.
Ask the Lord for grace to go into hibernation whenever He requires it of you. When you feel formless, direction-less, seemingly stagnated in an impossible place, it is time to ask Him in that season to empty you of all you had so that He can have opportunity to declare \”Let there be a new beginning\” over your life again. (Gen 1:2, Psa 40, Isa 30:18, 40:31)