And being careful doesn't mean you need to be overly suspicious... or constantly
impute wrong motives to others.
The only sign I say is something of a guarantee is Christlike life, but even then, as Edwards warns, it is possible to do such things
with wrong motives.
i.e. if you pray publicly only to draw attention to yourself, you pray out
of wrong motives.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
They had
the wrong motive for giving, and they lied about how much they were giving to the church.
Believing that his regiment would engage in battle within a few days, and reckoning with the fact that he might not return alive to her or to his sons, he wrote to Sarah, using quite naturally the language of vocation: «I have sought most closely and diligently, and often in my breast, for
a wrong motive in thus hazarding the happiness of those I loved and could not find one.
But ofcos the preaching should not be done with
a wrong motive.
In addition to the one
wrong motive that we have already noticed
We err frequently, do things for
the wrong motives, misjudge students academically and spiritually, and fall short of the glory of God.
I charge no man here with
wrong motives, but it seems to me that this war craze has robbed us of our judgment.
Mr Miliband made clear he did not believe the war had been undertaken «for
the wrong motives».
Though the expansion to the internet has been good for many to publish, sadly it has also allowed some with
the wrong motives to publish.
There are
no wrong motives, just the paths we choose to take.