Cowardice and vanity about "Works" are treated in the sermon on the mount

Let your light shine before others, that you may see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven ... Be careful not to ' acts of righteousness ' in front of others, must be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your father in heaven.
~ Matthew 5: 16, 6: 1(TNIV).

To see or do not see?This is the question facing Jesus. our incentives directly. We can achieve only two things above with the right motivation.

We have a problem with praise and appreciation. It affects us. In "lonely" Finally, all kinds of personality disorders are beckoned. In "rich" Finally, the excesses of praise and strangely enough, let us more conceited blank (and spiritually blind in real need) than ever.How many of us can really enough praise? how often you're left scratching are possible;your head due to a lack of recognition for something you've made; for me it seems every day! (Even if small way "feel".)

John Stott notes that two seemingly contradictory lyrics Jesus above target two sins--cowardice to hide a good job and vanity (pride) to parade.

To see or not seen; this depends on the motivation. For at one end we're investing and don't want to attract our attention, just as a result of some sort of tall poppy syndrome. At the other end is our pride. receiving the kisses, the applause, the hunters in the labelling and in writing. If you do good things and to answer any of these ways have some things to ask of God--that can purify cowardice and vanity, vanquishing the vast spiritual imbalance of us poles, one day at a time, indefinitely.

One thing that we must all around with our separate ways how to cover for lost glory. Michael Eaton emphasises this in his book. We regain that sense of belonging by God himself--and yet this is a stern discipline that must work in. It is all about.Do not store your treasures in heaven.We take them from heaven. HEAVEN, in this context, it is now.HEAVEN is in our hearts.God our Ministers there!The remuneration is a spiritual reward momentary, unreserved well that is a priceless gift of grace.something that we cannot "WINS."

Good things to do, without the need to see, thanked or acknowledged, is the way to an inner freedom, peace and joy are rarely known personally for humanity still, we face and the direct opposite of jealousy when considering a Nelson Mandela Mohandas Gandhi or a or a Mother Teresa, and compare ourselves (unfairly, I might add). This is much more than we would have liked. we need even balance.

Our good works will be examined separately from our incentives should be considered or not; our Father in heaven sees to it that circumstances allow for people to see the good things we do when we fairly consistently. There is a requirement of "faith".

Besides, you probably the halcyon's gleeful human experience is maintained both in God that we are forever so comfortable with the ' secret life ', but we are totally at home with hybridization joy when father is glorified in projects, and we are pleased with our strong position in all this.

© Wickham j. s. 2010.

[1] John Stott, the message of the sermon on the Mount (the Bible speaks today) (Leicester, England: InterVarsity Press, 1978), pp. 126-27.
[2] Michael Eaton, The Way that leads to Life: The radical Challenge to the Church of the sermon on the Mount (Ross-shire, United Kingdom: Christian Focus publications, 1999), p. 109.