I have been thinking about how many of us, myself included, have felt inadequate at times. We can lack vision. We can question our purpose. And often, that tension shows up as trying to be something we were never designed to be. Maybe because someone our senior put us there, or because someone we valued said we couldn’t.

One of my favorite wisdom quotes says:“Be who you is, ‘cause if you ain’t who you is, you is who you ain’t.”— Brennan Manning, Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin’s Path to God

What if we truly discovered and embraced the roles and assignments we were custom-designed to fulfill? Would we say yes?

At a conference I attended this weekend, the keynote speaker shared something that stayed with me. She said many of her mentees joke that you should be careful telling God what you do not want to do, because He will make you do that very thing. But she strongly disagreed. She called that idea a distraction.

The enemy seeks to keep us ineffective by causing us to question God’s goodness and our worth. When we doubt Him, we start striving in the flesh. We try to sanitize ourselves through performance instead of being sanctified by the Spirit.It is true that those who love God give precedence to obedience. Obedience is not optional or selective. It is our willing submission and trust. It is our loving response to a holy God.

As we yield to Him, we are invited into a Spirit-led life marked by humility, growth, reverence, love, and wholehearted surrender. We learn to let no flesh take glory when God moves.

I wonder how much time we have wasted worrying about what others think. How often have we tried to squeeze ourselves into roles that do not quite fit? We are not all cut from the same cloth. We were woven with intentional design.Scripture carries this thread throughout: purpose, passion, gifting, and willingness placed within us by God Himself. It was His idea. His design. He wastes nothing. Even when the wicked seem to rule, He is still at work, bending history toward His will.What would it look like to step into God’s best for your life? Not just what you can do with ease, but what only He can accomplish through you if you say yes.It is not easy. Even the right assignment requires grit and resilience. But when we are in our lane, there is a deep grace.

There is a quiet joy in doing what we were made to do.“Hope deferred makes the heart sick…” (Proverbs 13:12a AMPC)

Perhaps the sickness comes when we delay saying yes to who He created us to be.

You are Custom Designed: Trust the process.