"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.2"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."
I read this and it makes me think a lot about myself and people in general. How often do we do a good act that pleases God but yet we run around and make sure that everyone knows that we did it. As I read this I think about humbleness and start to think that I really am not that humble. If i do something I want to shout it from the roof tops so that everyone can know what I, Brent Phillips have done. The more I think about that, that alone is wrong. I am nothing, nothing I do should give glory to me but it should all point to Christ. If people begin to notice me and not Christ is when i am living more for myself than my Savior that I claim to love.
I just wonder what people would think if we did things with much more humbleness. What if we did a good deed for someone and didn't go off and let everyone off to know as if to gain approval. I wonder if more people would see Christ and want to know more about him if we did something out of our love for God and not for ourselves. Not just for another mark that makes people like us or respect us more.
Just a thought
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