Author: Oke Chinye

The in-between season is a period in your life’s journey when you are not yet where you desire to be, but you are also no longer where you used to be. It is the space between promise and fulfilment, leaving and arriving, sowing and harvest.

The rod is a symbol of correction and protection, while the staff represents  guidance and care. In biblical times, a shepherd used the rod to ward off  predators and discipline wandering sheep, while the staff—with its curved  hook—was used to gently draw the sheep back to safety and keep them on the  right path.

The story is told of a single mother who longed to start a catering business to  provide for her children. She had no startup capital, no business plan, no  customers, and no professional kitchen—only a few old pots and pans in her tiny  apartment. But she chose not to let what she lacked stop her.

It’s easy to judge her and say she deserved the consequence of disobedience.  But are we not often guilty of doing the same? Don’t we, in our own journeys,  look back—dwelling on past mistakes, failures, regrets, or even the comforts we  left behind?

When God needs a special task accomplished, He often looks for those who are  already engaged in meaningful activity. A glance through the scriptures confirms  this pattern. Simon Peter and his brother Andrew were busy fishing when Jesus  called them to become His apostles.

Fear is one of the most crippling emotions we can experience. It has the power  to paralyze potential, sabotage purpose, and keep us from living the life God has  prepared for us.

In Spencer Johnson’s book “Who Moved My Cheese?” four characters go in  search of cheese in a maze. The maze is a labyrinth of corridors and chambers— easy to get lost in. Eventually, they discover some cheese at Station C.

The crowd was thick as the multitude thronged Jesus. Yet the woman with the  issue of blood pressed through. Coming from behind, she dragged her weak  frame forward until she reached Jesus and touched the hem of His garment.

Whilst in the wilderness, on the way to the promised land, the Israelites camped  for a while in the land of Moab east of the Jordan River. Then Moses informed them that God wanted them to move on; “You have stayed at this mountain  long enough.

An automatic door does not open on its own, even though it is clearly marked  ‘automatic’. You must get within the sensor range, before it will open.  Irrespective of how desperate you are to enter a building, if you are thirty yards  away from the sensor range of its automatic door, it will remain shut.