AMacario Martínez was one of the thousands of fluorescent-green uniformed street sweepers in Mexico City, toiling with their long-bristled brushes in 8-hour shifts for about $10 a day. Then came the video.

Martínez, a 24-year-old aspiring musician and composer, recorded himself riding on the back of his garbage truck as it rumbled down the city’s tree-lined Reforma Avenue, his fellow sweepers unaware. He made several takes early one morning and then laid the images over a plaintive, romantic song he’d written about a love scorned. At 7 p.m. on Jan. 27, he posted it on TikTok. Waking up the next day for his 6 a.m. shift, Martínez was shocked to see “Sueña Lindo, Corazón” (“Beautiful Dream, My Love”) had around 100,000 views.

“That day I went to work, but I was really distracted because I kept checking my TikTok,” Martínez said in an interview. Two weeks later, he quit.

Martínez became an overnight sensation… People now recognize Martínez on the streets of Mexico City and want selfies with him. His first performance after “Sueña Lindo” went viral was a free concert on Valentine’s Day in front of a few hundred enthusiastic fans at a landmark outdoor Mexico City cultural center. Martínez invited his former co-workers to the front row, where they cheered him on.

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The new birth in Jesus will most likely not give us fame and riches, but it will give us a new name, a new relationship with God the Father, the gift of eternal life, and all the spiritual riches of the heavenly places.