Saturday, January 24, 2015
Ungratefulness
So one day I was at work. I used to work at Ace Cash Express, the check cashing company. When I first started, I used to work at one of the stores. So, anyway, when I was at work, a guy walks in. Now, this is a homeless guy, nothing against that, I live in a city where there a more than enough. I am also one that will help a homeless in an instant. I knew that he was homeless because I had seen him around, and he had been in there before to see if I had any money to give, yes, while I was working. You just have to know the area I was in. So, again, on this day, he walks in, it was hot outside and he came in looking hot. He had a home phone in his hands, one that looks like an old time office phone. It was white and wide. It was one that I would not buy even if I had a house phone at the time, I have always been into cordless phones. He comes up to the counter and says that he wants to sell me the phone. I thought to myself, well I guess I can see, I am always giving him something, lets just see if the phone works. At this time in my life, I am a single mother with four kids that never really received child support. I was however at this time getting about $60 a week. So I had a little change in my pocket. I thought to myself, I will see if this phone works, but I will still give it back to him and also give him $5 and he will be able to sell the phone to someone else and he will be able to get more money. So, I checked the phone and it worked. I told the man that I did not want it, so I placed it back where he could get it from me. I then placed $5 in the slot so he could have it, and he watched me put the phone back so that he could pick it up. This man,....this homeless man. A man that has no money, looks down at the $5 and looks up at me and says....I wanted $10. As soon as he said that, the Holy Spirit said to me "ungrateful" -- as soon as I heard that, I grabbed the $5 that I had placed in that slot. I told the man that he could have had the $5 and sold the phone somewhere else and had more than the $5, but he was too ungrateful that he missed out on his blessing. I also told him that he did not know who I was and that the $5 that I was willing to give him was for my kids ands he has no idea who I was, and that I would never try to help him again. Later on that day he came back into my store and tried to ask me for the money, I just looked at him and shook my head no. I was so upset, and I vowed to myself that I would not ever help someone that was ungrateful. I have never seen that man again. Imagine how God feels. I am sure that He will not help and ungrateful person either.
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