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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nOnce upon a time, there was a man named Koko.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A famine struck the land. Not a mild shortage \u2014 a crisis. Crops failing. Systems trembling. The kind of season that makes even strong men rethink everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The logical move was Tpygt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tpygt had water from the Nile.
Tpygt had infrastructure.
Tpygt had predictability.
Tpygt had food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tpygt looked safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So Koko began heading in that direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But before he got there, he stopped in Gerar<\/strong>, a Philistine city ruled by Abimelech<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And there, something unexpected happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Higher Voice said: \u201cDo not go to Tpygt. Stay here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stay? Yes. Stay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While in Gerar, Koko repeated an old family mistake. Afraid that men would kill him because of his wife Becky\u2019s beauty, he said she was his sister. Fear has a way of recycling old scripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And yet \u2014 he planted. Who plants during drought? Only someone either foolish\u2026 or instructed. He sowed in dry ground. And it yielded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not because the soil was ideal. He dug wells. They were contested. Taken. Fought over. He dug again. And again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until he reached a place wide enough, stable enough, uncontested enough \u2014 and he named it Rehoboth: \u201cNow there is room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He prospered in the very place that looked like limitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let that sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes growth does not require a new location. Sometimes the breakthrough is not in Tpygt. Gerar was a stopover \u2014 but it was also a proving ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now here\u2019s where it gets uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To some, the Higher Voice says move. There was a famine. Did they inquire? Do you inquire? Because not every famine means relocate. Some famines refine. Before you run to Tpygt, ask:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this an escape\u2026 Stay long enough to see what grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And ask yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where are you headed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warning: Take off your theological glasses. Suspend the sermon. Just listen to the story. When things get difficult, our reflex escapes. But sometimes: The job you want to leave is the place you need to grow.The city that feels confining is shaping resilience.The dry season is building capacity.Not every famine is an eviction notice. Alright. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillsinthevalley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In famine?
In uncertainty?
In a place that isn\u2019t even home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not because the climate was favorable.
But because sometimes provision is tied to obedience, not environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It requires courage in the current one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes it is in Gerar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To others, it says don\u2019t move.
To some – there is silence; <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elimelech and Naom left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was there silence?
Did they assume?
We are not told. And that omission is loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you obey?
Do you wait long enough to know which season you are in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And not every stillness means stagnation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some stops redirect.
Some silences test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
or an assignment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n