A common mistake we do fall into is when we do our works
and deeds just to be noticed or appreciated by others. Then we feel
unhappy and disgusted when nobody seems to notice us or appreciate our actions
or deeds. It should really have been the other way around. We
should feel good and happy in doing some good deeds for others whether we are
noticed or not. Because the positive attitude should be the doing of a
noble act, not whether we be noticed or appreciated. Why? Because
there is a God who knows and observes all things, who is just in rewarding the
good and punishing the evil doers.
That is precisely the advice of Jesus how we should merit
life everlasting by our good deeds. That is what He, the Lord Jesus,
proposes in the whole chapter 6 of St. Matthew’s gospel, how to perform
our good deeds and thereby merit eternal life. If you do the
opposite, you will just continue in life being an unhappy, frustrated person.
“Be careful not to parade your good deeds before men to
attract their notice; by doing this you will lose all reward from your Father
in heaven. So when you give alms, do not have it trumpeted before
you; this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win
men’s admiration. I tell you solemnly, they have had their
reward. But when you give alms, your left hand must not know what
your right is doing; your alms giving must be secret, and your Father who sees
all that is done in secret will reward you” (Mt. 6:1-4).
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