I’ve discovered that speaking in paradoxes can be so much fun especially when the hearer can decode the language immediately.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” can be viewed as a simple example of a paradox.

Now I’ll take it up a notch by stating a more complicated one.
“You should learn to walk before you run because when you don’t, the problems you encounter will prevent you from going further”.

It is quite complicated, isn’t it? The master potter gave me this above paradox when I was at my wit’s end concerning a very delicate issue.
First of all, you need to have the background information for you to be able to decode the meaning behind the language. Without this, it’s impossible to understand the paradox.

So what is the background information?
Jesus was indirectly telling me that life is in stages. Every stage we go through in life is important, no matter how meaningless it seems. Each season in life is relevant when you are yielded because when you eventually look back at them, the puzzle behind the bigger picture looks more visible to you.

Many times, there is a lesson behind each season and we need to master that lesson so that he moves us over to the next season. It is his way of pruning us. Sadly, some people go through life with the notion that as adults, we cannot change. This I believe, is an invalid claim.

If my claim is wrong, then can you explain to me why, after Jesus departed and the holy spirit outpoured unto his disciples, they became more like him and were named “Christians”? meaning christlike in nature.

Thus, looking once more at the above paradox, I guess it all makes sense now – “You should learn to walk before you run because when you don’t, the problems you encounter will prevent you from going further”.