Here’s a little spiritual exercise.

Notice the very next person you see.
Are they familiar to you or a stranger?
What impression do they give?

You are looking at an image of God.

Jesus became an ordinary person, one of us. There was nothing in his appearance that made him stand out.

What if instead of a Jewish man 2000 years ago, God had decided to come as that person?

What if God does want to meet with you in that person.

What if God wants to meet them in you?

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations… There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. (C S Lewis)

Keep on loving each other as brothers and sisters. Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realising it! (Hebrews 13:1 NLT)

Try it again, looking in the mirror this time.