What motivates you to do the right thing? And does it matter? The truth is we all can be prompted into action by things like rewards, the fear of punishment or negative consequences for bad behavior or even bribes. The Jesus way challenges all of those things and calls us to develop the habit of simply living rightly.
Jesus teaches about giving to the needy in Matthew 6:1-4, instructing us to think about so much more than the admiration and applause of people.