TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE?
If there is a poor man...in any of the towns of the land that the Lord your God is giving you,do not be hardhearted or tightfisted
Deuteronomy15:7
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Giving is about compassion,not about judgement...
M.Beecher(Maryland)
In the median of her busy street stands a man in shabby clothes and run down boots.His cardboard sign reads (UNEMPLOYED VET-HUNGRY-WILL WORK FOR MONEY.GOD BLESS.)Every Sunday she goes to church and goes thru the intersection she sees someone begging for food or money.The director in NYork once told her that giving money to the homeless only enables them to stay on the street.If she gave the man money how would she know if he was to buy bananas or a beer,a coat or cocaine?Yet she donated money to shelters and programs that said they would help the poor the addicts the misfits of society.So why feel hardhearted,averting eyes as she passed by the urban scarecrow of a man?In the scripture above she can not find any test that the poor have to pass before she should give generously.There is no requirements that they must be honest,hard working,worthy or even thankful.Could it be that Gods admonition to give is sometimes more about her maintaining a compassionate heart than about what the recipient will do with the money she thought?
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