Thought Cards | Tag: intentions
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"I am hurting because this person misunderstood my good intentions/what I said"
📖 Related Verses (12)
1Peter 3:16 "Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ."
2Peter 2:12 "But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;"
2Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him has written unto you;
2Peter 3:16 "As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction."
Acts 6:10 ,10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke.,11 "Then they bribed men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God."
Hebrews 12:3 ,3 "For consider him that endured such hostility of sinners against himself, lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.",4 "You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin."
John 5:39
Jude 1:10 ,10 "But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.",11 "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the rebellion of Korah."
Matthew 13:15 "
Proverbs 1:5 ,5 "A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:",6 "To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their riddles."
Romans 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.
"If my intentions are good, it matters not, the means I use"
📖 Related Verses (4)
Colossians 1:18 "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence."
Anything that is not completely under the Lordship and preeminence of Christ is under the power of death. Both our intentions and means of accomplishing anything must be under Christ in order for us to see life in anything. He must be Lord of all if we are to see life at all. He must be Lord of all or not Lord at all
Galatians 3:3 "Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh?"
It is foolishness and self-defeating to try to fulfill a good intention with wrong means
John 14:6 "Jesus said unto him,
Christ must be the intent(life) as well as the means(way) of every accomplishment. My intentions as well as my ways must agree with the nature of Christ
It is an insult and a betrayal of Christ and His principle to try to fulfill a good intention with wrong means because Christ who is goodness personified is established as the intention of all things and the goodness of the intentions are seen in the goodness of the means of accomplishing them. This means that intentions are as good as the means they are accomplished and the means are as good as their intentions. A wrong means coupled with the right intention is therefore a betrayal of this principle because a wrong means makes a right intention wrong and a wrong intention in turn bears a false testimony that Christ is 'wrong'. A wrong means is therefore a betrayal of the goodness and holiness of Christ notwithstanding the rightness of intentions.
Revelation 3:15 ,15 "
It is not possible to mix good intentions with wrong means and not incur the displeasure and judgment of God. The goal of the christian walk is not in doing as much good as is conveniently possible but all about being good. Being good is seen in doing good consistently
"My intentions are not good but I am safe; nobody knows my intentions / what I am thinking"
📖 Related Verses (4)
1Samuel 16:7 "But the LORD said unto Samuel,
2Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars."
Matthew 5:8
Matthew 9:4 "And Jesus knowing their thoughts said,
sometimes people misunderstand you not because of how you said a thing but because of their erroneous ways of looking at things