One day, A guy located a cocoon of a butterfly. A small beginning seemed. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours because it struggled to force its frame thru that little hollow. Then, it regarded to forestall making any progress. 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 further.
So the man determined to assist the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged effortlessly, however it had a swollen body and small, shrivelled wings.
The man persevered to observe the butterfly because he predicted that, at any moment, the wings would amplify and amplify with a purpose to support the frame, which would contract in time.
Neither befell! In reality, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen frame and shrivelled wings. It in no way was capable of fly.
What the man, in his kindness and haste, did no longer understand become that the limiting cocoon and the war required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening have been God’s manner of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings in order that it might be geared up for flight as soon as it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we want in our lives too. If God allowed us to go through our lives with no obstacles, we would now not be as robust as we could have been.
“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 asked for but everything I needed!”
Albert Sihsing 