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.
Until it suddenly stopped making any progress and looked like it
was stuck.
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, although it had a swollen body
and small, shriveled wings.
The man didn't think anything of it and sat there waiting for the
wings to enlarge to support the butterfly. But that didn't happen.
The butterfly spent the rest of its life unable to fly, crawling
around with tiny wings and a swollen body.
Despite the kind heart of the man, he didn't understand that the
restricting cocoon and the struggle needed by the butterfly to
get itself through the small opening; were God's way of forcing
fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings. To prepare
itself for flying once it was out of the cocoon.