The Butterfly and Cocoon

  

 



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 it 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 its life crawling around with a
swollen body and shriveled wings.

It never was 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 any obstacles,
it would cripple us. We would
not be as strong as what we
could have been.

And we could never fly.

God's Plans

I asked for Strength
And God gave me Difficulties
to make me strong.

I asked for Wisdom
And God gave me Problems to solve.

I asked for Prosperity
And God gave me a Brain and
Brawn to work.

I asked for Courage
And God gave me Danger to overcome.

I asked for Love
And God gave me Troubled people to help.

I asked for Favors
And God gave me Opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted
I received everything I needed.

GOD BE GLORIFIED

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