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Sue
May 30, 2007 at 9:59pm
I think that we need to be sensitive to the Spirit on this one.  After all, this is how Elizabeth Smart got taken, by her father helping out a homeless man.

I always try to keep my guard up, but also help when I can.  When my husband and get approached for "bus money."  (Seems to be the common request for cash :)  Tommy always says "okay you stand over there and I will put some on the trunk, then you can come and get it after I am in my car."  Works like a charm, if they don't do as he says, it's simple...no cash!  It also helps that my husband is a very large man.  Not someone anyone would want to mess with :)  
Anthony
May 30, 2007 at 11:50pm

Alot of times my response is NO and alot of times God changes my response to YES.  Like Sue said be sensitive to the Spirit. We all have a still small voice that will tell you when something isnt right.  Never let anyone into your vehicle if at all possible or into your house.  Dont give cash to anyone no matter how dire their need.  If they are hungry take a couple of minutes to get them something to eat while they wait for you to return. If you are a man carry two wallets one with your personal cash and one with say 5 dollars.  Use the wallet with less cash.  If you are a women and a man approaches you, please, please, please stay where there are other people, stay in a lit area. If you are alone this is not a time to be helpful your very life could be at stake.  God teaches us to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves............May God bless you and keep you!

Zach and Jessica
May 31, 2007 at 6:09pm
Ok. So...I definitely understand what both of you are saying. I don't ever have cash, so thats not really a problem for me. What I am trying to get at is...should we be so careful? We make people fill out applications to get help from the church. Is that what we should be doing? I understand not putting yourself in danger on purpose. Don't walk up to a man with a gun pointed at you. I get that.

We should be going out of our way to help them, not avoid them. Is our fear a biblical fear?
58:6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 58:7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? 58:8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. 58:9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 58:10 And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday: 58:11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. 58:12 And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words: 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].

Why, with all the great promises in this passage, do we fear to put ourselves out there? On the other side, where should we draw the line? Is that a decision that we are supposed to make? Or are we supposed to give of our money and ourselves without reservation?

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