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God's Plan
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 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
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 lives. If God
allowed
us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.
We
would not be as strong as what we could have been.
We could never fly!
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