While Kingdom Hearts often allows the players to decide the order in which we explore some of the worlds it contains, we can’t simply go straight from Traverse Town to our final destination at the beginning of the game. Each world we face has gradually increasing difficulty levels as well as areas that require items and capabilities that we haven’t acquired yet, and allowing us to advance into these areas before we are ready will just result in frustration and disappointment. While this may feel like an unfair or unwanted limitation, the game is simply preparing us for these more challenging levels before we get there. There is a time and a place for confronting Ansem, and we have some preparing to do before we get there. 

We all face roadblocks in life that can feel like unfair limitations, and knowing the Lord could easily grant us the desires of our heart with one word from His lips can cause us to resent His lack of action. But just as Joseph endured pits and prisons while he was being prepared in private to become a prince, these areas we would rather bypass are the places where critical skills and abilities are developed that we will need later on in our stories. Even Christ endured a cross before His crown, so let’s look at the level we’re currently in from a different point of view today. It’s not an unwanted delay… it’s intentional development.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. James 1:2-4

Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. Hebrews 5:8

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