For me, one of the things I used to really care about was how many tweets and retweets I would get when I would tweet something about God. I believed what I was saying, but did it more for the recognition.
One of the other things that would make sense is doing things for other people with the intent of others noticing. Think about a charity or a community service event and only going so that you can post a picture to show that you were there. How many people do you think do this?
Right now, I write. I write almost everyday with good intentions in my heart and my mind. I sit back and evaluate how I am living my life sometimes and question if I could get up and say these things in front of people. Or even sit across from someone and tell then what I am writing about.
Paul was somebody who struggled with this as well.
For some say, "His letters are weighty and forceful, bit in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing." Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present. (2 Corinthians 10:10-11)
The things that we do and the way that we live our life while we are absent from heaven will matter when the time comes when we will be present in heaven. We must commit our lives to God on a daily basis so that when that present time comes we will be in heaven.
Does that make sense to you?
Paul was obedient to the way in which God called him to live.
Some said that his speaking amounted to nothing. We might feel like what we do isn't amounting to anything because we are slaves to recognition.
Evidently, some were judging Paul by comparing him to other speakers they had heard, and Paul was perhaps not the most powerful preacher. No matter what people were saying about him, he responded obediently to God's call.
My encouragement to you is that being obedient to God is what matters. Keep doing those things that are honoring to God even though others don't notice. Who cares what people think, the people of this world thought Paul wasn't a good speaker, but in God's eyes and our minds from what we know about him we see and know that he was one of the very best preachers ever.
You will never amount to something in a quick, popular, and flashy way. You will amount to who God created you to be by having an honorable commitment to God daily.
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