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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