A Superhero’s Secret Identity

I surrender, Lord. I’ll do what You’ve asked!

It seems silly to be so fearful of something that looks relatively easy and harmless. God knows what He wants to accomplish in us and get us out of our comfort zones, where we feel we can play it safe. But comfort zones are for those unwilling to take a risk and rely on God to do the impossible. I needed to step out of my comfort zone if I wanted to achieve the impossible.

After God sent me the gazillionth confirmation of what He wanted me to do through one of our young adults, I pondered why I was so resistant to this assignment that I felt the need to seek confirmation for it for ten years. I asked God what was going on in my heart to make me resist His will so much. God showed me I had been playing it safe for ten years and had thus missed out on all the benefits and blessings He had waiting for me.

I felt an urgency in His call that time; I felt that if I refused it or put it off any longer, He would move on and give this assignment to someone else, who would then reap the benefits and blessings He had been reserving for me.

I don’t think I had risked my salvation over this issue; Jesus is every bit my Lord and Savior. But I believe that when God gives someone an assignment that that person follows through with, there are huge blessings in store for that person. And I believed that if I kept putting off doing what God had asked me to do as I had been doing for the previous ten years, someone else would get the opportunity and perhaps complete it with enthusiasm and love for God. A holy fear came over me as if God were saying, Lori, I love you, but I’m not messing around. You’ll miss what I want to bless you with if you don’t do what I’ve asked you to do.

I love blessings, and I want all God has for me. I saw a large, strong, commanding hand coming down from heaven and a finger touching sand and parting it much as I think He did the Red Sea for the children of Israel. I knew a line had been drawn in the sand; I needed to make a decision—fast. Would I get onboard with the identity God had called me to, or would I settle for less than God’s fullest blessing in my life?

When God looks at us, He sees us as He created us to be. He sees us walking in our full destiny. We are great in our heavenly Father’s eyes because He created us that way and gave us unique gifts to enable us to walk out our destiny.

You and I can do great things for God only when we embrace the great things God wants us to do. My four-year-old granddaughter Hailey Paige embraces me; she wraps her arms around my neck and her legs around my waist and hangs on for dear life. She smiles and laughs as she squeezes me as tightly as she can. That’s what I call an embrace. It’s difficult to pull her off me when she hugs me like that and hangs on. When we embrace our assignments that way, we will walk confidently in what God has called us to do, and that will bring God the glory. He desires to display His power to others through us.