The Way I see it

"All that the follower of Jesus has to do is to make sure that his obedience, following and love are entirely spontaneous and unpremeditated. If you do good, you must not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, you must be quite unconscious of it. Other wise you are simply displaying your own virtue, and not that which has its source in Jesus Christ ... The genuine work of love is always a hidden work."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer in The Cost of Discipleship p. 159