One day a man found a cocoon (茧) of a butterfly in the forest. He sat there for
several hours and
watched the butterfly. Suddenly a small opening
appeared, and the butterfly made its great effort 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 cut off the remaining bit of the
cocoon so that the
butterfly could come our easily. But to his surprise,
the butterfly got a heavy body and very small wings
when it came out of the
cocoon.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected
that the body would grow smaller at
any moment and the wings would become
larger and be able to fly. But neither happened! In fact, the
butterfly
spent the rest of its life crawling (爬) around with a heavy body and small
wings. It was never
bale to fly.
The man was in his kindness,
but he did not understand the nature rules. Before the butterfly came out
of the cocoon, fluid (流体) from its body must be forced into its wings, and then
it would be ready for
flying. It must have a hard struggle (拼搏) to get
through the small opening to get 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 difficulties, it would make us fail. We
would not be as strong as we could have been; we
could never fly.