A couple days ago I was approached by a man in his early 20's asking if I had any work for him to do. I told him no, he answered that he hadn't eaten for 2 days and was starving. I said that if he was really starving, I would take him next door to get a burger or something, he declined saying he didn't want a handout, he wasn't raised that way, and he insisted he needed to work to buy his own food. I remembered that I had a couple stumps to pull out from a hedge I had cut down, I asked if he would be willing to do that and he said yes.
I took him home, gave him some tools. Since I was going to be gone all afternoon I gave him some money, saying that since he turned down a freebie I was going to trust him to do the job, and left.
Well, you guessed it, I came back home and he had taken the money and ran, without doing any of the work.
I believe that God honors what is in ones heart, and that he credits an honest act of charity even if it goes bad. Is this a reasonable assumption?
I also prayed that the money he stole be cursed, that since he betrayed what was was an act of Christian charity in the name of God, satan be loosed to hound him and that cash. Is that reasonable to do?
I took him home, gave him some tools. Since I was going to be gone all afternoon I gave him some money, saying that since he turned down a freebie I was going to trust him to do the job, and left.
Well, you guessed it, I came back home and he had taken the money and ran, without doing any of the work.
I believe that God honors what is in ones heart, and that he credits an honest act of charity even if it goes bad. Is this a reasonable assumption?
I also prayed that the money he stole be cursed, that since he betrayed what was was an act of Christian charity in the name of God, satan be loosed to hound him and that cash. Is that reasonable to do?