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STRUGGLES IN OUR LIVES
Struggles in Our Lives
Unknown Author
A man found a cocoon of an
emperor moth. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and
watched the moth for several hours as the moth 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 could go no farther.
Then the man decided to help
the moth, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the
remaining bit of the cocoon. The moth then emerged easily.
But it had a swollen body and
small, shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the moth
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
little moth 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 moth to get through the tiny
opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the
moth 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 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. And we could never
fly!
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