Finding Obscurity

“Working with the poor is the path to obscurity. Working with the poor is the path to becoming no one.” - Attorney Chu
Some thoughts...The path of obscurity is the path of the cross. The poor live on the edge of society’s fabric, frayed, unstable, strong in so many ways but in need. To work there on the edge is to work in obscurity, without praise, no one knows, few care. This is like Jesus. Jesus came to a people who where his own, but they did not recognize him. He lived in poverty himself, a king with no crown…or toilet or health care. A king of mud. When he finally became “famous” he was misunderstood as a demon, the antithesis of his being. Misunderstood and driven to the margins Jesus was crucified, a torture designed with a social stigma that erases a person from record. They were rarely recorded. Legally you ceased to be someone and became no one. So that the One by whom all things have their being became “no one” in obscurity, with few even coming to say goodbye.
The path to obscurity is the path of the cross. The cross is the way of Jesus. It takes us to the place where we die to ourselves where we might cease if not for the strength of Jesus in his resurrection. What might our ministries and lives look like if we embraced the cross?