Well, maybe not, but don’t you want to imitate your Father Who is in Heaven, who makes the sun to shine and the rain to fall upon the just and the unjust alike?
St. John of Kronstadt commended giving charity without asking or caring whether the story the mendicant tells is true, without convern for whether the one asking is ‘worthy’ or ‘truely needy’, precisely because in so doing one makes oneself a Son of the Father who gives in mercy without regard for the condition of the one receiving.
Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.
What the guy really needed is some one to speak the truth to him............not encourage his current way of life. Jesus spoke a lot of hard sayings and most left (and leave now) when the free lunches were over.
Sorry, just giving people things to feel good is a liberal trait.
I desperately need $1000 for my son's medical bills, or he will die, tomorrow.
Don't ask questions, just give up the cash.
Any amount will help, but you should give as much as you can afford. Give till it hurts, God wants you to.
FReep mail me for the address to sent the check to.
I'll be waiting for the check.
We are also commanded to test spirits, and to be “shrewd as snakes”. A snake pretending to be a dove acts in a spirit of deception, and we should not get involved blindly.
Sometimes one indeed cannot tell; give freely then.
Often a little testing reveals evil quickly ... like offering what the alleged needy REALLY needs.
Bleeding? I’ll drive you to the hospital.
Need medicine? I’ll pay the pharmicist.
Out of gas? show me the car and I’ll fill my spare gas can.
Hungry? let’s go to Burger King and I’ll buy.
NEVER just give them cash. If they’re truly needy, that’s not what they need.
You took the words out of my mouth.God wants ME to do the right thing.What others do is what THEY will have to justify to God.
Last month I gave a dollar to a disheveled looking man in downtown Oakland.A friend of mine chastized me for giving anything to”that bum”.What she didn’t understand is that whatever he did with the money is on him,its no longer on me.
“Be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.” Our Father would also have us “Be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.” For really, is enabling someone’s habits really what the Lord would have us do? Rewarding theft? Rewarding lying? Rewarding thinking like a victim instead of taking self-responsibility to provide for himself? Or would He have us say, “Gold and silver I do not have, but in the name of Jesus ....”