Sometimes at the office after drinking my morning jug of the gentleman’s coffee, I have to head over to the “Men’s lounge” and refresh myself. And since there are several hundred wash your hand signs in our facilities, I oblige them. Anyway, many a day I stand their with wet hands in front of the automatic paper dispenser waving my hand. I continue to wave my hand and watch as the little red dot flashes, but no paper rolls out- ever. One day during this ritual a co worker was there with me. I commented on how this particular machines was not working. He responded “It always works for me” and he promptly walked up waved his hand and was given more paper then he needed to dry with. It seemed like I was invisible to this machine.
Invisible.
19 “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” (Galatians 2:19-21, New International Version)
This whole idea of becoming invisible, or maybe better put, the idea of dying to yourself and replacing your selfishness with the mind of Christ, is something that I have been struggling with and praying for for some time now. For I know that that the days with I live for myself usually end up with things happening that are not so great, and the days when I hide myself and let Christ shine through are days of glory.
The dispenser still does not work for me, and I count that a blessing and a reminder. A reminder of how I should be living my life. A reminder that I should not be seen, but that the Christ should be seen in me. When you wash your hands today and look in the mirror, ask yourself, “Who’s living in you?”
