Something I love doing when on the treadmill every morning is to listen to good talks, and this morning it was by a very famous preacher, who said, “People hear me preaching and say, ‘I would like to become as good a preacher as you, and do you know what I tell them? I tell them, ‘don’t look at the result, look at the process’!

What a revealing statement. We do this all the time. We look at a successful person, and think, ‘I’d also like to be a millionaire!’ But have we ever thought how much effort and sacrifice went into the process of making of those millions or billions?

Yes, all this was on a treadmill, and very often I’m told, ‘I wish I was as thin as you Bob!’ Puff, grind, push, wake up early in the morning, sleepy eyed, throw water on my face, and walk, and walk and walk! All this to keep from being a liability to my wife and family as I grow older. But lots of effort in the process, right?

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 the 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 butterfly.

He took a pair of scissors and snipped the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. Something was strange. The butterfly had a swollen body and shriveled wings. The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected 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 deformed wings.

It was never 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 small opening of the cocoon are 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.

Struggles are exactly what we need in our life. In fact I was fascinated when the preacher said, “God places us in tough situations, for us to struggle, win, and build strong character!”

If God allowed us to go through all our life without any obstacles, that would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been.

Not only that, we could never fly! So next time, be influenced by the process not the result..!

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