What does invisibility allow us to achieve? To put it another way, what might it allow us to get away with?
Know this: not all invisibility is the same.
Ghost shrimp can survive in close proximity to predators because they are so nearly clear that they are essentially invisible. They can sneak in and sneak out, furtive and unnoticed, before other creatures realize food is nearby.
Internet stalkers. They hide behind their electronic walls, and they can disappear as effectively as a ghost shrimp. They are there and not, sneaky and gone, with only a wisp of electricity left in the wires to show they were ever there.
Anonymity can have the same effect. The best spies have faces that blend in. You see them and forget them. They do normal things, come and go, and never try to hide. It’s the hiding you would notice. The normal things make them invisible.
That’s how Psalm 23:4-5 can say:
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.”
When God’s hand covers us, we become invisible to those who would do us harm. They see us and forget about us. They intend us harm, and they cannot find us. The Lord directs our path in and out, and we are gone before our enemies realize we were nearby.
God makes us anonymous to those who would wish us evil, and we pass by safely under the Lord’s care.
We don’t even have to hide. God makes us invisible in the everyday things we do.
When we reside under God’s protective hand, evil has no idea where we are. The Lord becomes our spiritual cloak of invisibility, protecting us from every bad thing.
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