Random Acts of Kindness - you are probably familiar with the trend. Do one good deed a day for a random stranger, and hope they pay it forward! Seems simple enough. But is it? If it were so simple, it wouldn't be a trend; it would be a daily habit. But unfortunately, with today's addiction to social media and self-gratification, it's more about sharing your RAK on Facebook than about the actual good deed.
Matthew 6: 1-4 tells us:
"Beware of practicing your righteousness before me to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven."
"When you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving will be in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you."
So give freely, altruistically, and secretly, so that you may reap the the real reward, not the real-time reward online.
