One day a small opening appeared on cocoon, a man sat and watched one butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force it’s body through a hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared it had gotten as far as it could go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly, 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 wrings. 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 wit a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly. 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 was God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly in to 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. We could never fly.
I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong… I asked for wisdom he gave me problems to solve… I asked for prosperity he gave me brain and brawn to work…. I asked for courage and he gave danger to overcome… I asked for love and he gave me troubled people to help…. I asked for favors and god gave me opportunities… I received nothing I wanted and I received everything.
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