14 For God will bring every act to judgment, including every hidden thing, whether good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:14 CSB)

People today do not want to look at life through the lense of good or evil. These words seem to have been deemed to definitive for our current cultural norm.

So lets put a more politically sensitive, but no less apt, spin on them. Because the world does not want to consider itself evil.

Let’s look at our daily actions through the lense of good or ill intent.

Consider setting out this day with the idea that you would name each of your thoughts and actions as either a good or ill intent. Now, that would make you think about each and probably change your mind on any ill intent. Which would be good.

But lets flip the script and decide today we will do an after action report. We will look back on our day and categorize each action we took, each word we said. Now we have a better gauge of just how and who we are. We see our life through a filter of just what our intent really was without catching ourselves first.

Now, with a clear view of who we are, we need to go back to our first example. Begin to live our lives filtering first so that we remove any ill intent from our day beforehand.

What too we will find is we often act less out of motive and more out of impulse.