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There's a certain beauty to early mornings. Often, areas of the city that seem to be so mundane at midday, seem to acquire a particular elegance and otherworldliness at 1 AM, for instance. I seem to feel that this is how others see us when God is working within us - transforming us into the new creations Jesus told Nicodemus about and Paul wrote of.

The ordinary becomes extraordinary and the overlooked becomes a source of marvel and admiration by others who see Christ in us.

1 Thessalonians 1: 7-10 (The Message) - ". . . The word has gotten around. Your lives are echoing the Master's Word, not only in the provinces but all over the place. The news of your faith in God is out. We don't even have to say anything anymore - you're the message! People come up and tell us how you received us with open arms, how you deserted the dead idols of your old life so you could embrace and serve God, the true God. They marvel at how expectantly you await the arrival of his Son, whom he raised from the dead - Jesus, who rescued us from certain doom."

Let us pray that we are stripped of everything that clouds another's ability to marvel at what God is doing in our lives. May He divest us of all manner of attitude, actions, thoughts and beliefs which serve to hide the Christ in each of us.