What if You’re “It”?

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What if You’re “It”?

When I was a kid, we spent a lot of time running around at recess playing some form or version of tag. Remember that game? When you were tagged by your friend, it was your turn to tag someone else. You didn’t get to stay in one spot, picking out who you wanted to be “it” and tagging them when you felt like it – no, you started hustling as fast as you could go until you touched the next lucky person. You moved and you kept moving until you no longer had to… at least you didn’t have to move as fast when someone else had to do the tagging – you just had to be better at dodging.

Today, we don’t think of tagging the same way. Today you can be tagged in a photo or a status on FB and not be required to do anything. You’re included but you’re not necessarily expected to do. You’ve been made aware – of something beautiful, of something funny, something cute, but you haven’t been asked to be the next one to run.

These days, we’ve become more observer than doer, more thinker than active, more spectator than participant.

But is this really what God’s called us to?

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Is this really what God’s called us to?

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When God calls us, He “tags” us. When He marks us with His Son’s blood that spilled for us on the Cross, when He looks down, reaches out to us, and says “you’re mine, you were bought with a price”, does that stipulation include us just sitting?

I don’t think it does.

When we know Christ, we know freedom. That’s something that has to be shared. That’s what must be told. It’s our very best gift we can pass on to someone else – not the kind that’s put in a closet and pulled out only on special occasions.

Paul reminds us in Philippians 3…

“Not that I have already reached the goal or am already fully mature, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgeting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.” ~Philippians 3:12-14

He says earlier in that chapter that his goal is to know Christ and to know Him well, to focus on understanding the power of His death on the cross and His resurrection.

That should be our goal as well.

Are you running? Or are you just standing? Are you moving? Or are you sitting still?

What if you’ve been tagged and you don’t even know it? You don’t realize it? Or maybe you do know it, but you ignore it? You refuse to run because of fear, or doubt or a belief that someone else would be way better? Way more qualified? Way more organized?

God doesn’t ask for your perfection. He asks for you to take action.

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He doesn’t want your excuses. He wants you to make the right choices.

I’ve known many, many women who have felt that nudge from God to do something… only to talk themselves out of it, to refuse to believe it, and they miss not only the blessing God had for them, but also the trust-building.

Getting tagged isn’t just about being touched for a special purpose; it’s about what you do after you’ve been tagged – and how you touch others. Will you encourage someone today? Will you challenge someone? Will you let someone else know they’re not alone?

You’re not just tagged for God’s purposes for you. You’re tagged to be used in God’s purpose for others.

So guess what?

You’re tagged.

Now run. And tag someone else.