A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared...he sat & watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force it's 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 & it could go no farther. Then, the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors & snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body & small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge & 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 & shriveled wings. It never was able to fly. What the man in his kindness & haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon & 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 any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.
...And we could never fly....
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