Why wouldn't you tell the man, thank you for your generosity, but I can't take food that you need for your family, it is more important to give that to your children for their health, because I am not in need for it, I trust that Jah will give I food, and if He doesn't, then it is because He wants it to be.
I would be more likely to do that in that situation, especially if I am just hungry, tired and weary, and not near death. If I survive, I would help the family afterwards, in AppreciLoveness of their kindness.
There are things I am willing to die for, but it doesn't make sense to I to die because I won't eat flesh when it is the only food around I that would prevent I death. For example, if I was stranded in a very cold place, with no edible vegetation because of the winter, and knew I would likely be stuck there a long time, then I would hunt and trap animals to survive.
I don't stay away from flesh because of a law, just as I don't stay away from alcohol and anything of the grape vine because of a law. I stay away from those things because they are a hinderance to the Works I and I need to do, and the Heights I and I need to Trod upon. And I also stay away from those things because I senses reject them, so I know they are things that don't fit with I. But something that is even more of a hinderance to I Works is death, unless it is a death that was a result of certain Works I needed to do.
Christ spoke about certain things that are acceptable to do on the Sabbath because of the circumstances, even though under normal circumstances they are not acceptable. Because as He said the Sabbath was made for Man, not Man for the Sabbath. There are Reasons for all the things RasTafarI asked I and I to do, from the things he asked of the regular population, to the things He asked of the Priests or Nazarites.
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