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That Would Be Terrible
The other day the answering machine at the building showed one message. When I played it there was no message that was left. So I looked on caller ID to see who called. It was a cell phone from Ohio, so I called this person back. The man I called saying he was needing gas money to get back home, so I inquired about the situation. He said that he was going to Florida to see an uncle but he got a call that he was in the hospital, so he was going back home, he just needed gas money to return. I inquired about his family, he said that he had a son in Houston that could get him a job down there, but has not been able to save enough money to make it down there. I suggest that he call his son to ask him for some gas money to get back home. His reply was that he couldn't do that, "That would be terrible" to ask your son for help. I am never ceased to be amazed at the crazy, false reasoning of human beings. Jesus discussed that children have a responsibility to parents in Mark 7:9-13. "And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.' But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban"' (that is, given to God) then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do." So how could it be "terrible" to ask your own child to "help in a time of need," but it is not "terrible" to ask a total stranger for help? Indeed what a morally mixed up world we live in. Now that is what is truly "terrible" in this issue.
