Humans have perfected a strategy that keeps them looking honorable, even when they don’t really deserve it. We carefully watch the time we express our ugly side, when it is hardly noticeable.
You wouldn’t know the bad some are capable of doing just because they have successfully hid it from you.
The chairman at a wedding reception validates this view in his remarks to the bridegroom: “And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. John 2:10.
But, this is contrary to what the Lord expects! He wants us to be at our best, especially when nobody is watching, hence the miracle of the best wine at a time the worse should have been served.
This kind of attitude makes you exceptional.