G.R.O.W.T.H
Growth is uncomfortable. There’s really no prettier way to say it.
Your body will fight it. Your mind will resist it. Everything in you will crave what feels familiar because comfort has a way of convincing us it’s where we’re meant to stay. But you have to fight back.
That’s the thing about growth. It rarely arrives dressed in comfort or wrapped in glamour. More often than not, it comes with stretching, pruning, waiting, and a level of discomfort that makes you wonder if it’s even worth it.
Think about a baby growing their first teeth. The fuss. The crying. The sleepless nights. You look at that little baby and wish you could take the pain away. But you can’t. Because as difficult as that stage is, it’s necessary. Those teeth have to come. One day they’ll need them to chew, to grow stronger, to do what they couldn’t do before.
That’s growth.
It’s scary too. Believe me, I get it.
Stepping into the unknown isn’t exactly on anyone’s list of favourite things to do. There’s something comforting about staying where you’ve already figured things out. You know the roads. You know the routines. You know what to expect. There’s even that saying: If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
So why leave?
Because growth doesn’t happen where everything stays the same.
Growth has a way of rudely interrupting the reality you’ve grown comfortable with. Sometimes it doesn’t knock before entering. It shakes things up. It unsettles you. Some seasons of growth are so disruptive they seem to pull the ground from beneath your feet.
But when the shaking settles, you realise something.
You needed it.
Because if you never left the old, you would never have experienced the new.
There’s a reason seasons change. Imagine if the sun refused to give way for the moon. We’d miss the beauty of the night. Everything has its appointed time. There are seasons to stay planted, and there are seasons to move. Seasons to settle, and seasons to shake things up and keep going.
Growth is demanding too.
Who said good things come easily?
Growth asks for things. Sometimes your time. Sometimes your habits. Sometimes relationships. Sometimes mindsets you’ve held onto for years. It asks because where you’re going cannot be sustained by who you’ve always been.
What served you yesterday may not serve you tomorrow.
And no, growth isn’t taking from you just for the sake of it. It’s making room. It’s exchanging old tools for better ones. It’s replacing old versions of you with someone more equipped for the journey ahead.
Growth is also shameless.
There are moments when the very thing you need to learn will require you to humble yourself. You’ll have to become a beginner again. You’ll ask questions you think you should already know the answers to. You’ll hear things that sting your pride.
It’s not always pleasant.
But your eyes can’t stay on your ego. They have to stay on the goal.
Sometimes growth requires discretion.
Not everything needs an audience.
Sometimes the greatest work God is doing happens quietly. In the hidden places. While you’re shedding dead weight. While you’re dealing with the little foxes that threaten the vine. While you’re allowing Him to remove what no longer belongs.
That’s how room is made.
And little by little, almost without noticing, you begin to blossom.
Think about pregnancy. Conception happens in private. The process is hidden. But when the baby arrives, everyone celebrates the beauty of what had been growing all along.
Growth works like that.
It also needs nurturing.
You don’t fight your way into growth only to neglect it afterwards.
Keep feeding it. Keep showing up. Keep choosing the habits that brought you here. Keep resisting the temptation to return to what’s familiar simply because it’s easier.
Because old habits are always waiting.
Above everything else, though, growth requires God.
Not as an afterthought. Not as an emergency contact when things get hard.
He is the map and the compass.
He is the One who knows where this journey is leading long before you ever take the first step. He gives direction when you’re confused, strength when you’re tired, and grace when the process feels heavier than you imagined. As you keep your eyes fixed on Him, He keeps transforming you, little by little, into the person He has always intended you to become.
Measure upon measure.
Instruction upon instruction.
Glory upon glory.
Growth isn’t always comfortable. It isn’t always pretty. But if God is the One leading you through it, then every stretch, every shake, and every surrender is proof that you are becoming—not who you used to be, but who He created you to be.
