Recently I have been challenged in business and in life to discover those things that are hidden in plain sight. I think we’ve all experienced the fun of losing sight of our cell phones one time or two and then engaging the whole family in an urgent search only to find out it has been in your back pocket the entire time. There’s also the long standing story of the missing glasses only to find out they were on your head the whole time. The idea of something or someone being hidden in plain sight has come to mean something entirely different to me though as I’ve had it running on rewind in my head to the point that I finally realized that God was asking me to slow down and abide with him here. That he had something new for me to learn.

So I slowed down, got quiet and listened. I knew it was a revelation for this blog because when considering how a pearl is made they are hidden and yet the oyster shell is in plain sight, waiting to be opened and the treasure discovered.
The Lord reminded me of my past with him, of my walk as a child, teenager, college student, newly married wife and mother and to now. One theme has been clear through my walk, I knew I was always made for more. I have never been satisfied with mediocre, in fact those times of my life that I did settle,  when I thought I could run my life, I ended up falling in love with comfortable which soon became a prison and the darkest times of my life.

This feeling of being called to something greater has its downside though as many times you are left with a feeling of not fitting in. A feeling if left to the flesh to expound upon turns into, “I don’t fit in” or isolation because you feel different and don’t feel understood or you may swing the other way and feel like you are too intense, too much. 

As the Lord has awakened my heart in fresh and new ways in the last three years and as I was in my quiet place with him now, he has begun to spotlight those areas of my life where I had believed a lie. One of the biggest lies I had believed was that I wasn’t valuable, that my voice didn’t matter and that I didn’t fit in. This is a lie meant to entrap and isolate so that you never believe your true identity and purpose for living. It leads to complete confusion and chaos in life as one feels the call to something greater and knowing that you have something inside of you calling you out but at the same time not knowing your identity or the authority at which to step forward in it. 

 As I have been called to go deeper and know the Lord more. I have found my identity in him and the sweet intimacy that only comes in the heart of the father.   I have found that I must get alone with God, for it is in the quiet intimate moments with him that we hear his voice. That I must be in his word to know truth and to renew my mind daily with it.  He brings us in close to love, heal and reveal himself to us so that we can turn around and share his love and revelation with others.

 When I am quiet with the father, understanding my identity in him and the love and intimacy only my creator can fulfill in me. It allows me to know that no matter where I am, what I’m called to, who I am serving with, I am enough because he has hidden me in plain sight. I need not fear of being too much or not enough.  This puts my relationship in alignment with him as it is meant to be, making me second. When I am hidden in him, than and only then can others see Jesus in me.  You see, many people confuse being hidden and set apart with isolation and unworthiness but when he sets us apart it is not for isolation it is not for desolation it is for revelation. 

Being second and hidden in Christ allows me to walk out his purpose for my life at peace knowing I am right where I am supposed to be.  

I choose to be hidden in plain sight.