Believing in the Best of Intentions

Yesterday I read an article about how we know when we are making the right choice (read the full article here).

The bullet points are this:

• We are all terrified of making the wrong choice.
• God wants us to learn how to choose well.
• But even if we make the wrong choice, if our heart is right--if we truly wanted God's will but we just got it wrong--God honors that.

I was thinking about this in terms of our conflicts with other people. Because my biggest frustration with other people is when I think their heart--their motives--aren't right. When I think they are more interested in self gratification than God's will. Or when I think their motive is to intentionally cause me or someone I love a deep hurt.

But what if I instead chose to believe their heart was right? That even if they made a poor or wrong choice it wasn't intentional? That it wasn't intended to cause harm?

The "love chapter" in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, says that love believes the best in all and is always hopeful. Wouldn't it serve God if we always believed the best, and hoped people's hearts were right, and treated them accordingly?