story time

I feel like there's a message/moral to this.

The young man didn't want to borrow and refused to do so. Perhaps it's saying something about our culture, how we borrow and lend, but there is always an expectation to be paid back.

Perhaps all the lending and borrowing makes us forget the good that comes from simply giving?

 

I sort of feel like that young man. Many people tell me that they will help me reach my objectives but they always want something in return. If first they would understand the cause that I'm advocating for and in return expect nothing than perhaps I would let them help me. However, people always want something in exchange of something so even though their intentions are good they are still, in a way, manipulating as to how you should do those objectives.

This may be way off but that's how I perceived it at first. Thanks for posting it.

 

I think he could have accepted one of the offers he received, esp. the second one. Who knows, through that man he may have received an even greater blessing, but he seemed stubborn and didn't want any help. Unless he's waiting for a divine power...which isn't going to happen here; God isn't going to come down for him. Many times, he works through people, and maybe one of those men was the person he sent. OR maybe, there's an even better offer coming along and the man has faith that he'll get it and that's what he's waiting for....? So in that case, I understand him turning the two offers down, but he doesn't appear as someone who's hoping for something better, esp. b/c he says he wants to "do it himself," which tells me he's just being stubborn. And if you're about to start a business and you're not willing to invest in it, then you probably shouldn't be doing it. What exactly he was hoping for -them to lend him freely? And why the tantrum? He didn't have to scream and yell at them; could have turned them down politely.


I'm wondering why he wants to build the shop -a shop that'll honor him. Who is he? What for...Why?
And serve men? In what way?
Or does him in "honor him" refer to God? And the shop he's trying to build is for God? And by serving men, the shop'll be helping people somehow? And is that why he went to the Church to help in the first place?

What's the message here, Chris? Interested in knowing.

 

As much as I like you, I feel bad telling you that I dont like the story. It isnt well written. You need to give more details.

 

It reminds me of a story from the Bible