A man found a cocoon for 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 the 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.
He took a pair of scissors and snipped
the remaining bit of the cocoon. The
butterfly then emerged easily. Something
was strange. The butterfly had a swollen
body and shriveled wings. The man continued
to watch the butterfly because he expected
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 its
life crawling around with a swollen body and
deformed 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 small opening of the cocoon are
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 all our life without
any obstacles, that would cripple us. We would not
be as strong as what we could have been.
Not only that,
we could never fly.
