Title: Hidden in Plain Sight for Purpose: Waiting to Be Revealed
In a world where visibility is often mistaken for value, it’s easy to wonder why your gifts seem unnoticed, your prayers unanswered, or your purpose delayed. But what if you're not overlooked… just hidden in plain sight? What if your current obscurity is the evidence of God’s intentionality—not a punishment, but a preparation?
God hides what is holy—even in plain view.
He conceals what carries weight—until the time is right to carry it.
He shields what is necessary—until the moment it must be revealed.
Look at Katherine Johnson from Hidden Figures—a brilliant mathematician, a Black woman quietly solving equations that would carry a man into orbit and bring him home alive. Her mind was unmatched, her calculations critical. Yet, she was tucked away behind the curtain of history, working in silence while others took the spotlight. Hidden? Yes. But not forgotten. She was hidden in plain sight—until history needed what only she could offer.
The same is true of you.
You may be overlooked by people, but never by purpose. You may feel tucked behind the scenes, but heaven is watching every move. Just like the intricate math that ensured reentry from space, your life is being aligned with supernatural precision. Every detail—your timing, your training, your tears—is being calculated by the One who knows the end from the beginning.
You are not invisible. You are intentionally undisclosed.
Scripture gives us another glimpse of this divine pattern. In 2 Kings 11, Joash—the rightful king—was hidden in the temple for six years. He wasn’t lost; he was preserved. While chaos reigned under Athaliah, God had tucked away the true heir, raising him in secret until the time of coronation. He, too, was hidden in plain sight for a purpose.
This same divine strategy applies to relationships.
When God ordains a union for kingdom impact—whether in marriage, ministry, or mission—He often hides both parties from each other and premature exposure. Why? Because what they carry together is too weighty to be mishandled by immature timing or spiritual sabotage. What seems like a delay is divine calculations.
Divine relationships are not built on impulse—they are authored by instruction.
They don’t emerge from convenience—they rise from covenant.
Just as John Glenn refused to launch without Katherine’s confirmation, God is waiting for everything to align before revealing what’s been hidden. One wrong move, and the mission fails. Enter too soon, and the relationship burns in reentry. So God hides. And watches. And waits.
So if you feel unseen—like Katherine working in shadows, or Joash sheltered in silence—take heart. You are not buried; you are planted. You are not forgotten; you are being formed. You are not denied; you are being destined.
You are hidden in plain sight for a purpose.
You are necessary to the assignment.
You are waiting to be revealed, right on time.
Every unanswered prayer, every delay, every detour is a part of the divine equation. And when the moment comes, the world will see what heaven already knows:
That you were created on purpose, for purpose, and hidden in plain sight to be revealed in glory.
Wait with confidence. Grow in grace. Trust the God who sees when no one else does. Because the One who hides you… is the same One who will unveil you.