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.
Author Unknown