Sometimes (many times really) we are just clipping along in life, busy, busy, busy when suddenly we realize we are in an entirely new season. We are there sometimes just as the natural order of things…winter to spring ect…infants to toddlers…teens grown and married…But sometimes there is distinct almost abrupt change. The doing we are used to doing is not fitting or even an option any more. Afterall doing it for the sake of doing something out of habit because we have always done is not always what should be happening.

 We may have entered into the season I have come to call “The Season of Being Pulled Back”. I suppose there are many reasons a person could be in that season but they are not all bad. In fact I have come to see, thank God, there is a very GOOD purpose in the pulled back stage.

Look at this little picture posted from Brave.

Notice what she is doing with her bow and arrow. Get it? Thinking of ourselves in the hand of God, He is the One who shapes us into the straight arrow, with polished shaft, sharp tip, clean feather lines, notch perfect. ‘And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he hid me.’ Isaiah 11:4

 . We might simply and profoundly be in a season of refurbishing. We might be a favored arrow used time and again in need of some tender loving care in the hand of the Archer. We might be in the quiver for a time to be pulled out for a specific purpose refitted with a new arrow head.

But take note and heart lovers of God who seek to serve His purposes. He knows the season and the purpose and the preparation. You may in this moment be in His hand fitted to the string of the bow, which is even now being pulled back in careful aim to hit a specific mark. And pulled back you must be or you will never reach the distance with the impact necessary. Take heart if this is your season. It is not one of rejection from the Most High but one of cherished preparation. You are blessed!