Never do your duty for duties sake

In II Timothy, the Apostle Paul spends his whole time exhorting Timothy to keep the faith, to endure, to be steadfast in the Word of God. It is for Christ's sake we fold fast to our faith. But whenever you do good things because they are expected of you or to satisfy man, then you lose your reward from Christ. Christ will say, "You left your first love." If service cannot be for the love of Christ, it is service better left undone. If duty is done with the expectation of reward, then set it aside and do something else. If your labor is in secret, then your Father who is in Heaven will recognize your labor no matter how great or how small. We can never outgive God.