motives

As G.K. Chesterton said, "Having the right to do something is not all the same as being right in doing it." I found the thought intriguing.
As I have gotten older more and more responsibilities and freedoms have been placed on my shoulders and I've had to make a lot of decisions about what I can or should do. But the decisions that I've wrestled with the most are with the age old enemy of motives. I've found that the grandest acts can often be masked in selfishness, pride, greed, and unhealthy desires. While those things may be right for others, my impure motives have corrupted the deed. This is one of the oldest tricks of the enemy - taking that which is good and twisting it. That way we are deceived into believing that we are doing good and that are actions are justified.
And I will sign off with a verse that the Lord has imprinted on my heart lately.
"One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple."
Psalm 27:4
That is the purest motive that I can think of, and that is my heart's desire.