Locusts are basically social critters, but remain docile or inactive so to speak until something happens to trigger a change.
They possess a sensitive area on the hind leg that contains may fine hair like sensors. This sensitive area is usually inactive or inert until an external agency touches it. One slight touch will not produce a response, but tests have proved that repetitive application of a stimulating agent causes something to happen in its life.

Rubbing or stroking these sensors on their hind legs will send a signal to its brain causing it to swarm. Casual stroking does not evoke any response at all. It requires stimulation for 5 seconds every minute for four hours to do that!
The repetitive application of this stimulating agent causes something to happen in its life and when alone, such stimulation never comes. It only comes from interaction with other locusts. As they start to group together, often forced together when food is scarce, they get closer and closer and start to rub against each other.

When this occurs long enough, they start to change. Metamorphosis occurs.

Over a few weeks, the locust moults or changes five times. Like a grub, it goes into a cocoon type state and emerges as a new creature. It changes colour and shape and instead of living a solitary life, it becomes very social. Reproduction takes place and the locusts swarm.
In the natural it becomes a giant eating machine with a voracious appetite, eating just about every form of plant life it can devour. It has been said that under certain conditions, locusts can even devour each other. There is deep spiritual significance to these matters, which we shall see in other sections of this page.

When the locusts have undergone this change, they all start trying to fly.

Their efforts are not very successful initially until another external stimulus happens. Their attempts to fly are unsuccessful at first.  The merely hop a short distance into the air, before falling back to the ground and this keeps happening until the wind changes.
When the wind changes in the right way, they suddenly feel release.
Instead of being able to make only short hops, they suddenly soar high into the air and are able to fly. Once this ability is reached, the wind that brought the change can carry them long distances and it is at this stage that they are in their dangerous plague proportions. Such swarms can travel hundreds of kilometres or miles each day and give the appearance of covering the earth. Such plagues can appear to be like dark clouds carrying destruction in their wake.
Once the locusts have undergone such changes as a result of the stimulation received when in close proximity to each other, they breed by the millions. When this occurs in their plague-like proportions, they swarm and literally cover the earth. When flying they give the appearance of dark clouds. As voracious eating machines, they gobble everything edible in their path, sometimes stripping crops and vegetation to the ground.
Almost as suddenly as they swarm—they cease.

I want to compare Christians with locusts! It might seem to be a strange comparison, but please bear with me. People are social beings like locusts. We are all individual human beings, each with uniquely distinct personalities and that is a great and wonderful thing. Created in the image and likeness of God, we each possess personal traits and physical attributes that no other human being on the planet has. Your fingerprint is different to mine. Your DNA is your own DNA, but a believer can take on the DNA of almighty God—how wonderful is that?
We are also separate people—one of a kind living a completely separate life, even if married with a family. My wife Marge and I are one, yet we are two. She likes little sugar in her coffee, whereas I take one spoonful. She does not like food as spicy as I do. Although we sleep in the same bed, she sleeps on her left side, whereas I sleep on my right side. What am I saying?
We are two completely distinct and separate individual persons, but are at the sae time social persons.

Let me now bring this into perspective.
You and I are members of the same body, which is the Body of Christ. We are members of His Church, uniquely different, yet one.
Two thousand years ago, Jesus told a motley bunch of people like you and me that they were going to radically change the world. The Book of Acts says that they turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6). He told them to travel the world, starting from Jerusalem and preach the Kingdom of God, to heal the sick to cast our devils and to make disciples. This was a weak, fearful fragmented group of individual people, linked only by their temporary association with Him. They were like scared rabbits and they could not fly. They couldn’t do anything really and at that point, from a natural perspective, the Jesus movement could have died.
Some external stimulation was required just as the locust needs an external stimulation to move it.

That stimulation came via a rushing mighty wind.
Like the locust, they stopped hopping and started soaring. A metamorphosis occurred as their lives were transferred.
Like a locust that needs to go into a cocoon like state to emerge as a new creature we also need to emerge as new creatures, motivated and equipped by the wind of the spirit, who stimulates us enough (if we permit Him) until we too start to soar again like that early church did and swarm!

The locust’s stimulation comes from interaction with each other. We need interaction with each other—not the fragmented denominational differences and separatism we have imposed upon ourselves—but a rubbing together as it were as the Spirit of God starts to blow again over the face of the earth.

My dear friend, can’t we put our differences aside for the common cause? Can we not swarm together in these troubled days when decent people are suffering and need answers that work? Can we not allow those sensitive places to be rubbed and stimulated, so that we can all put our individual and collective shoulders to the wheel to promote the Kingdom of God, without the distrust, separation, debate and prejudices that are tearing the heart out of the church and allow God to do what He wants?

Like the locust, once we start to allow that stimulation happen and start rubbing together and swarm, we can truly fulfil the great commission in all areas and aim for one mighty event. That is the day when we will suddenly stop swarming like locusts. We will stop swarming insofar as that will be the day Jesus returns. Amen?