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Grace:
Why would your husband call you a witch?
Grace
Grace:
--- Quote from: daywalker on June 10, 2011, 05:37:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: Judy on June 10, 2011, 03:43:32 PM ---To all. This was my experience yesterday!I do not know if I did the right thing. My husband and myself were approaching a store when a young woman stopped us and asked for a favor. She was decently dressed and very excited. She said she had $4.60 and I misunderstood that's what she needed to buy some fluid for her car, well that's NOT what she meant, after I gave her the initial $4.60, she then started figuring how much more she need. I said,"what, I thought that's all you needed" She took awhile and then said she needed $16.00 more. My husband whipped the money out and that's when I got angry. I figured most people have a phone to call someone but she said she lived about 25 miles away. No credit card??????
I said sorry, i want all the money back, we live on quite a fixed income and retired. I don't know if my instincts kicked in but in all my life I have never been asked for that much money and i thought that she was brash. I would have walked to a gas station (very close) and got what i could. A little bit of anti freeze goes a long way.Come to think about it we had some in the car but forgot in all the goings on.
I was angry for quite awhile not only because of the money but some young people do not plan ahead and then expect to be delivered from their bad planning. Who knows.Maybe if she had asked us to go into the store with her? Also she said she would meet us somewhere the next day to pay it back. I asked for her address but she changed the subject.
So what do you guys think. My husband called me a witch!!!
judy
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She sounds a little shady in my opinion, so no I don't think you're a witch. :D
As I've already said before, I never give strangers or beggars cash (anymore). I don't believe in that "well, I did my good deed, it's between them and God" attitude. That's 'pulling the ignorance card' in my opinion. I don't want the risk of my money supporting someone's drug or alcohol problem. If a person is hungry, and I have the ability to feed them, I will. If someone needs something else, and I'm able to get it for them, I will.
But what if I give a guy some cash and he goes and buys a bottle of vodka, chugs it down, then steals a car, runs a red light and kills a young teenager!! ??? I wouldn't want that blood on my hands. (yea, sure, some may say that's an extreme analogy, but that's the way I think...)
Daywalker 8)
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Why does it sound shady? What can we give that hasn't already been given to us? Don't we give what we have to give if it helps someone? No free will sounds as if we can't control what that person does with the gift. Can we?
Grace:
--- Quote from: John from Kentucky on June 11, 2011, 02:10:09 AM ---It is curious.
The Scriptures state that if a man doesn't work neither should he eat.
The Scriptures also state that when you do good, do it secretly so that only the Father knows.
Yet Christians feed bums and make sure others know the good that they do. They exult in doing good deeds and think God owes them a reward for doing good. They think doing good makes them righteous.
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This is a conundrum to me. I'm tired and ready to go home. It is what it is. I can't save myself or anyone else. I am who I am. He made me what I am. What good is any work if one loses it in a moment?
Marky Mark:
--- Quote ---It is curious.
The Scriptures state that if a man doesn't work neither should he eat
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Hey John,curious indeed.
2Th 3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
2Th 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
2Th 3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
2Th 3:13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.
In a outward way this is very true.
1Ti 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
1Th 4:11 and that you be ambitious to be quiet, and to be engaged in your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, according as we charge you,
But when we are told that Gods words are Spirit we then need to see it from that viewpoint,that being, the primary message is in the Spiritual application.
Joh 6:63 ... the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
When God is doing His work in us and we do not pay attention to what He wants of us in a Spiritual way then we are denying the Lord and we can then no longer eat of His bread [true doctrine] of life. The busybodies of the world will work in their own quietness consuming[eating] their own idols of the heart having no ill effect on those whom God has called to be aware of the things of the Spirit.
When we rely on others for our own Spiritual sustenance[by not putting our own work/effort into our studies] we then are not working out our own salvation and are not deserving of the true bread[food] from above.God wants us in the thick of it working out our own salvation so we can come to see the Light,in fear and trembling.
Php 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Php 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Php 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Christ is the food of life[the vine]that will nourish us so as to bring forth the fruit of the Spirit.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
He does the work in us so that we can reap the rewards to feast upon.
Joh 15:16 You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever;
If we do not work in the Spirit, we will not eat of the fruit thereof.
Just some food for thought... :)
Peace...Mark
markn902:
I guess everyones situation is different and like most things in life there is no "one size fits all" answer :) God puts us in different circumstances and what is right for one person (in daily life) may not be the best choice in someone elses. I guess it's that whole learning thing :D
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