Your Father Who Sees in Secret Will Reward You Openly
“Your Father, who sees in secret, will Himself reward you openly.” Matthew 6:4
“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.” Matthew 6:1
Remember Jesus’ teachings on the Sermon on the Mount on secrecy. There are rewards for doing some things in secret. Not everything must be advertised on social media or to people. Let’s be guided by the Holy Spirit in everything; God knows our motives. Jesus said if we do things to be seen and praised by men, we will have no rewards in heaven, but only on earth.
Let’s gauge our motives in everything we share, and the Holy Spirit will give us wisdom. It is okay if only God knows some of the things you do in secret. There will be a greater reward for that than blowing your own trumpet in public.
I think that sometimes our generation has lost awareness of the value and power of secrecy because of social media and these mobile phones. Even in private fasting and prayer sessions and when helping the poor, people want to take and post pictures and make known what they are doing.
We must remember that Jesus meant what he said. We should not do our giving, fasting, and praying and anything we do for God to be seen by men. We must always check our motives to evaluate why we do what we do.
When men praise you, you have received your rewards already.
That desire to advertise our spirituality is rooted in pride. Pride is very seductive, and someone may not even know they are proud. That’s why we must always examine our hearts and motives. If no one knows what you’re doing, that is humility and self-denial, but it has great rewards in heaven. God does not like us practicing our righteousness and doing our good works to be seen by men, but only for him.
I remember reading a testimony of a Korean pastor, Rev. Park, who died and went to heaven and was shown rewards in heaven. He was shocked to find that although he was a very successful and wealthy pastor on earth with a mega church and had done a lot of good deeds, his house in heaven was still at foundation level. He also saw that many famous pastors and elders he had known on earth and had died had no homes in heaven but lived in a communal house. The angel told him that he and these pastors had done everything to be seen and complimented by men, and so they had received their rewards in full on earth and had none in heaven. (You can read testimony here and watch video testimony here).
God means what he says in his word.
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