It’s the most annoying thing in the world: when you hate people because they are always there trying to prove you wrong or as if they are better than you. But you know for a fact that they talk a great game but 9 out of 10 their game is a front. Then in that sliver of a moment, they find a vulnerability and expose it like they did you a favor, where you failed to do good because you were tired. They do nothing 9 out of 10 times and the one time it was convenient for them, they get around to it before you do and they are the hero. It happens at the office, at church, amongst friends and even family. Your good work gets undermined by the jerk face fake and it’s annoying because everybody thinks it was the person you hate the most in the moment. So also good works are conspicuous, and even those that are not cannot remain hidden. – 1 Timothy 5:25 What happens when we hit this jadedness is simple: we stop caring for other people and look out for number one until it becomes convenient to help out and do good for others or when we only bother to do good when it is advantageous for us or our interests. I know, it’s supremely Christlike to only do good when it’s convenient (no, really, its anti-Christ like). In fact some of you are saying to yourselves, “this is the exact reason I don’t come to church or believe in organized religion because Christians only seem to do good when it’s convenient otherwise they turn a blind eye to doing anything altruistically motivated!” Don’t allow them to be your measuring stick! Screw those fake, hypocritical, impiously pious religious people– you and I need to do good all the time especially more so when it is not convenient for us to do so because that’s what Christ did. It doesn’t matter if nobody sees it because it wasn’t meant for people to see the good work you do. I know a little recognition helps you feel motivated and confident, but you’re ego is huge anyways, you don’t need your mom to tell you that you’re doing a great job. You just keep doing good regardless of who is watching or what other fool is lurking. I want to encourage you today to be inconspicuously good. I want you to be less concerned about who will see and what reward you will get and just go out there and do something good because it is in your heart to do it. No pretense, no show, no fakeness. If you think about the ultimate good work, which was Jesus, without blemish, becoming the sacrificial lamb to carry the burden of all human sin and die on a cross like a criminal on the side of a large highway, then you understand that his good work was largely inconspicuous at the time. Except, it wasn’t inconspicuous, it couldn’t remain hidden; Christ’s good work exploded into a world changing movement that we are a part of. We need to continue His good work here and now. Go and be good, there’s nothing inconspicuous about it.