habitual virtue

Have you ever been pleasantly surprised by being commended for something you didn’t think was a big deal or a great sacrifice? This is better than expecting recognition for a major effort and not getting it. As you are changed into my likeness you will take on my character so that virtue will become more habitual than deliberate effort. This is part of letting your light shine before men. If you do it without the ulterior motive of a calculated effort for visible recognition then I will be glorified as a result. This is an enduring principle so that those who I commend as faithful servants at the end of the age will say they have only done as they were commanded.