At the suggestion of a blogging “friend” who did a review of the book, I began reading Unoffendable by Brant Hansen. Brant is a DJ for Air1 radio and also has a video on I Am Second. By the way: take a moment and watch the video. His story is remarkable. So I’ve started reading the book. For the third time. It isn’t that its not good…it is. But life and the need to read some other material forced me to put it away. I am a one-book-at-a-time reader. Wish I wasn’t but that is the way I’m wired. 🙂

Anyway…recently I was reading and ran across this 3 line ditty:

• God knows others’ private motives. We don’t.
• God knows our private motives. We don’t.
• We think we can judge others’ motives. We’re wrong.

I have to admit I wasn’t real fond of this. Why? Because I am a “judge.” Oh, I don’t want to be…but I am. I tend to think my motives are pure while I question those of others. You know….the old self-righteous hypocrite attitude. In reality, I fool myself a lot. I tell myself I look good (not physically) to myself and by default to others. How wrong can I be? To quote Brant:

“The heart is deceptive. And that calls for humility above all else, because my heart isn’t deceptive because it fools other people. It’s deceptive because it fools me.” (p.16) 

I need to take care of Bill’s heart and let God take care of the other person’s heart. Let’s start a revolution of not judging another’s motives. Let’s start with ourselves. Any thoughts?