I overheard a conversation between two gentlemen once. One said that he had to get another barber. He said that he had the same barber forever. He said that after 30 years of being a barber, he suddenly decided to retire. The second man trying to figure out who it was that retired asked the man what he looked like. His response was I don’t know. This cracked me up and made me think at the same time. I don’t know how long this guy had been seeing this barber, but he let on that it was a long time. In all that time he didn’t know what the barber looked like.
We go through our day to day lives and encounter people. Some of these people are sometimes referred to as invisible people. This refers to individuals whose presence or contributions might be consistently overlooked by society or individuals. These are people that you may look over, but you would notice if they weren’t there. Like your barber, the guy that hauls your trash off, the daycare worker, etc. Do you know their names? Do you speak with them? Do you know that they are a soul that has a destination?
We should not be so busy and concerned with our day to day lives that we overlook the people in it. Or so busy looking at our phones that don’t see them. What if God put you in that person’s life to share His love with them? Will you see them?
Philippians 2:3-5 NET 3 Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. 4 Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well. 5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,