A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat
and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body
through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It
appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no farther.
Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and
snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily,
but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch
the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment the wings would enlarge
and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of his life crawling
around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It was never able to fly!!!
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the
restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through
the tiny opening, were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly
into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom
from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to
go through our life without obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as
strong or beautiful as what we could have been, and we would never learn to fly
as God has intended.
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