homeless part 3

What if you helped a homeless person and were swindled?  Taken.  Taken advantage of.
It is going to happen if you help people enough.


Which would you prefer?  For your default to be to help so  many people that sometimes you got taken advantage of? Or would you prefer that your default was to scrutinize, question give very cautiously -  the result of which was that many truly needy did not get help because you just didn't feel right about it.


I want my default to be to give.  Yes we will be taken advantage of at times, and I don't want to openly give to someone who is a schemer, but I do believe it is better to give one time too many, than one time not enough.


Remember the Priest and the Levite in the Good Samaritan story?  I am sure that they did not help because they thought it was a trap, or that the person was in some way unworthy.


If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?  1 Jn 3:17


It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.