Driving to work this morning I was thinking there are two pretty important elements to life to consider.
Motives and Intent
First motives. What are your motives behind the things you do? Are your motives good or bad? Like G.I. Joe used to tell me on Saturday mornings "Now you know and knowing is half the battle." What's G.I. Joe have to do with this? I simply mean, examine your motives. How often do we even think about WHY we do what we do? Once you see if the pattern of your motives are good or bad, you begin to develop a new insight to the condition of your heart. Are you good or bad? (Roman's 3:10) Do your best to operate with good motives.
Second intent. This is more for the people around you. Do you work to show your intentions to the people your are working or living with? Showing your intent is a revealing of your personal motive in the matter. When we don't do that we end up with "miscommunication". People may assume you have wrong motives and make a leap to also assume your intent.
If you operate from pure motives you can be fully transparent to others and gladly reveal your intentions in matters. This will help smooth out some of the bumps in life.
(By the way my motive is simply to share what I am learning in life with the intent of tossing something out there that may be useful to others)
:-) Have a great day!
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Here's a real world example.
You have a bill you can't pay in full. Paying SOMETHING is showing intent. You intend to work at paying the amount off.
If you pay nothing and ignore collection calls, you are showing your INTENT is to dodge the debt and responsibility you have to pay.
How do those two play out? In the second case they will come after you to collect. In the first case because you show intent to pay even a court of law would agree you are indeed working to pay the amount and severe action is likely to be avoided.... See More
A smoother life with less trouble.
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