"Would you still do what you do if your name was not on it?

If you received not credit for doing it?

If no-one knew you were involved in it?"

I took the author's name off of the above quote because I thought it was fitting.  I assumed that it would be okay with the author of that quote if he/she gets no credit for it. 

What about you?  What about me?  Do you do what you do because you love it?  What you do might be parenting, being a good spouse, a great friend, serving the homeless, teaching a class, changing a diaper, picking up trash – the list of possibilities for what you do is endless. 

Do you love what you do so much that you would do it even if no one knew that you did it?  Jesus tells the people in repeatedly in Matthew 6 that if when they do what they do to be seen by men "that they have received all the reward they will ever get" (Matthew 6:2). 

What if you were "nameless" in your service?  For example: 

• These children were raised (with "by Joe or Susie" excluded - no one's name here)
• This class was taught
• The garbage gets picked up
• Our babies get their diapers changed

Would you still do what you do if no one would ever, ever, ever know? Think about it.  Is what you do the passion of your heart or a way that you measure your worth because others praise you for what you do? 

Today, don't do what you do "publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven" (Matthew 6:1).  Do what you do because God sees it; because your Father in heaven sees everything and He will reward you (Matthew 6:4). 
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