David’s anointing for King must have been quite the highlight. Yet, years of being in-between the call and the crown were full of exhaustion, pain, and tears.

 

God was making a man who could handle that crown. A man who would fall and learn to repent of his sin. A man who would learn to lead armies while inquiring of the Lord for every direction. A man who could hold a sword to an enemy yet restrain his flesh from his own heart’s vengeance.

 

The same will be true for you, and me.

 

The in-between of the call and the launch of it will be full of tests.

 

He will test your faithfulness to His desires. He will test your pride. He will test your ability to steward well His assignments. He will test your inner motives and agendas.

 

Whatever He finds will dictate a necessary path that positions you while sanctifying you.

 

It’s the in-between whereby Joseph sees his destiny in the form of a dream yet finds himself isolated in a well after a heinous betrayal.

 

It’s the in-between whereby Joseph had to wait on the providence of God to unlock those prison doors while he learned to serve in that same jail with his gifts.

 

The in-between.

 

It can be a hard place to be.

 

You’ll have to learn to rest in Jesus and know that what is stored up for you ahead of time will come to fruition only by His hand and in His time.

 

The in-between will be full of fruit inspections where Holy Spirit will divinely arrange what you’ll think is the devil. He needs to see how you are in self-control, patience, long-suffering.

 

Are the gifts in you exploited by a wicked heart, or are they still under His control in Godly submission to His hand.

 

Can you lead others well, or will you lead them to Hell? You’ll be checked on this one for sure.

 

Is there a hunger to know Him more, or simply to live a good life of less than while others stay in lack.

 

Yep. It’s the in-between.

 

You can let out that big sigh as you read this. I can hear it all the way from here. I get it. We all want to get where we’re going. However, He needs to make sure that when we get there, we are fully equipped and prepared to make ready the ways of Christ and the Kingdom.

 

If you feel like you’re in the in-between…then be a good student of the inner work God is studying in you.

 

Ask Him with an honest heart to expose all that needs to be seen.

 

The in-between can become your greatest place of learning, and you will become a sharper sword because of it.

 

If you reject the in-between and choose to lose your luster, give up your hard posts, and reject His assignments…well then you might just get stuck in the place of in-between.

 

Embrace where you are.

Learn.

Steward.

Pursue.

 

One day you’ll find yourself entering into a beautiful inheritance and land where the only path that could have been taken to get there was the road called “in-between.”