What If Your Superpower Was Invisibility?

 

I'm fairly certain that as a male teenager my answer to the question "What would you do if you could be invisible?" would have involved listening to conversations I had no business hearing and staring at things I had no business seeing.

Even as a chronologically advanced man, I'm having trouble thinking of any if-I-was-invisible activities that would be morally upright and honorable.

But then, the Spirit brings to mind these words of Jesus, recorded in Matthew 6:1-4:

Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

What if, instead of wanting recognition and respect to come my way because of my acts of service, I put on a cloak of invisibility before helping anyone or giving anything away?

Truth is...Remember how Jesus healed people and then told them not to tell anyone? A little humility goes a long way toward being like Jesus.