It's a fact that we cannot please everyone. Our efforts and intentions will be taken differently by different people at different times. Our good works will not always be appreciated. There will not always be gratitude, nor recognition, nor consolation, nor encouragement. Sometimes good works and good intentions will even be ascribed with bad and selfish motivation.
Thus, in living out our faith, in doing good, in service, although difficult, it is always good not to expect gratitude, recognition, appreciation, encouragement, even a simple tap on the shoulder. In the first place, faith has no business expecting all these things. Faith's only business is to do the will of the one who sent us; to follow Jesus, only him, always him. That is reward enough for any disciple.
