Back to the Basics

So, I got a little flack over my posting about raising kids to be responsible with money and teaching them to work! Some of the negative comments came from my own kids, but hey, it still hurt. LOL
So one person wants to know where charity fits into all of that? While I was "complaining" about the cost of toilet paper, wasn't I helping the less fortunate? Well, yes. But there are the truly less-fortunate and then there are those who play the "victim" for far too long far too often.

So, if I am helping a child, any child, I am helping someone innocent, right? That's what I thought. Welcome a child in My Name and all that. My dilemma, though is this: What if an ADULT uses their children to guilt you into giving in over and over? When and where do you draw the line? If I know a child is hungry and do nothing, that is unthinkable. (I'm not talking about all of the children starving in other countries, of course I can't feed them all. Not alone. But a child you know personally.)

What is the biblical answer to this? Help others, serve, give, forgive, turn the other cheek, and keep doing all of these things! That's what I get out of the Word! And that's what I try to live by. Jesus wasn't a whimp though, either! So, I doubt He would advocate being taken advantage of. I just wonder where that line is? Is it just your individual breaking point? Or seven times seven past that point? What do you think?

Scripture Reference:
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
"For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies. Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread." (NKJV)