5 “And when you pray, you must
not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues
and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to
you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and
shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who
sees in secret will reward you.
In this chapter many verses warn us to do our
righteous deeds very secretly. There is a very important reason to advice us
so. In Mathew 4:4 Jesus defined the two fold peculiarity of human life. One is
material being; this side is always influenced by material world and its
peculiarities. This side seeks satisfaction from outside world that encompasses
material and social environment. Otherwise this side is satisfied by bread, material
needs, alone. And this side and its behavior are very much obvious. The other
side non-material or spiritual is not satisfied by bread, material needs,
alone. This side does not seek satisfaction from outside world that encompasses
material and social environment. And this side is not obvious and resides in
persons invisibly or secretly.
So whatever deeds we perform to get satisfaction
from outside world is a matter of our material being and it will not satisfy
the other side, the secrete one. Then you have to perform most righteous deeds
in such a way that they are away from material and social environment but quite
in your inner world which is very secrete and it should be satisfied. This
inner world only can contact the supreme power the Almighty. That is why here
in these verses says that the one who sees in secrete will reward you your
secrete activities.
Not only that everyone has two sides, one is
public, anyone can see. The other one is secrete which determine the actual
personality. God look into that side which is secrete. How we are in that side,
so God reward us. We can perform many things to show people and can remain as a
beast, means becoming an ostentatious Christian. These verses warn against such
attitude. So what important is how our secrete life.
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