Once upon a time, a man discovered a butterfly in the process of hatching from its cocoon. He stayed for hours, watching the butterfly struggle to get its wings through a tiny hole. Then, all of a sudden, it stopped moving and appeared to be trapped.
As a result, the man decided to assist the butterfly in escaping. He chopped off the last portion of the cocoon with a pair of scissors. Even though it had a bloated body and short, shriveled wings, the butterfly emerged effortlessly.
The man was unconcerned, and he sat there waiting for the butterfly's wings to grow large enough to support it. That, however, never happened. The butterfly crawled around with little wings and a swollen body for the remainder of its life, unable to fly.
Despite the man's good intentions, he didn't realize that the confining cocoon and the butterfly's effort to get through the little hole were God's way of driving fluid from the butterfly's body into its wings to prepare it for flight once it was free."