In general, then, our Redeemer calls us to a higher righteousness, to a higher motivation for righteousness, to a higher and more elevated perspective on why we do what we do. In addressing an apparent paradox in the Sermon on the Mount-the command to “let your light so shine before men” (Matthew 5:16) versus the command to “take heed that ye do not your alms before men” (Matthew 6:1)-Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “How is this paradox to be resolved?... From whom are we to hide the visibility of our discipleship?... We are to hide it from ourselves.... We must be unaware of our own righteousness, and see it only insofar as we look unto Jesus.... The Christian is a light unto the world, not because of any quality of his own, but only because he follows Christ and looks solely to him....”