Christianity Tested In Hard Times....

We may be coming to that place where families move in together, when children move back home because there are no jobs or costs are too high to survive it alone. I'm sure your family would be glad to know you are open to that need, should it happen.

What if a friend lost his or her home and had no place to go? what if your co-worker needed lodging? Sometimes the homeless are people we know.

If less than a month,I think it is ok.More than this it will damage our friendship,living with others is not easy,trust me.

I know what you mean. I'm hoping it won't be necessary, but I'm also hoping I would be willing should it become necessary. A lot depends on the way the receiver responds to the gift. Charity is not an entitlement.

If I need charity, I'd best be grateful and do all I can to contribute in other ways.

Don't forget there is strength in numbers. The more people you have living in a small group the better your chances of surviving. For one thing a lot of work is going to be required to provide food and the more hands you have to do that work the more food you can produce. Also the more eyes you will have that can spot danger before it gets to you. If you turn a hungry person away that comes to you in peace you may as well turn Jesus away.

Art

Some very good points you have presented. I tend to agree.

I am learning that if it is within our hand to give, giving is expected of us....

This would require discernment, for sure. In today's society, we can't be too cautious. But the wonderful thing about walking in the Spirit, is if we are listening to Lord, He will make His will clear to us. We must not feel obligated to take in every desperate case, we must be able to say no if it's not a good move, but we must be available to provide shelter if called upon. At least that's how I see it. What about you?

God Bless You and Yours! That's what we are called to do...to remember how we have received grace and convey it to others.

Art,

I sense the very thing you have written is coming our way. And without faith in the one who provides, all motivation and reason for stock-piling food is useless. What happens if the trouble lasts longer than the food. It will still take faith. I believe God is seek those who will trust him as provider....and also who will prepare themselves to be of service to others.

I don't just sense this, I know it as fact. I hear too many people repeating things that God has taught me and it's things that the only place they could have gotten it is directly from God just like I did. You are right. It will do no good to stock pile food if you live in the cities. In the country where you can have a better chance of defending it you can.

The people in the cities will be constantly on the move. What they can carry is all they will be able to have. It will come down to two kinds of people on this earth. That will be the good and the evil. The good will win but there won't be a lot of them left when they do. The food source will be food and water that was stashed by people that have died. The good will hide during the day and search for this food and water at night. That's what we have ahead of us and people will not believe it until they see it. Then it will be too late. Now is the time to get close to God.

Art

And now is the time to read and believe Psalm 91.

Very good suggestion. You couldn't have picked a more fitting scripture.

Art

I hear ya. It's certainly a testing time.

Hopefully, the American people--and some Republicans and Democrats who have any smidgen of sense at all--will bombard their Senators and Representatives with objections to this hate crime bill, and it will not be passed.
Even if it is passed, in the long run, we Christians will triumph. This battle's already been won, even if people don't choose to see it that way.:)