Someone Paid The Price

Someone Paid The Price

There was an aged artist who lived in a small village. He design beautiful art works, which he sold at attractive prices.

One day, a poor man among the villagers challenged him saying: "You earn a lot of money from your handiwork,why don't you assist poor people in our village?

Can’t you see that the butcher is not as rich as you are, but he still shares free meat to the poor people in the village?

Also, look at the village baker. He is a poor man with a large family. Yet he gives the poor people free loaves of bread".

The artist did not respond to the accusations. He only smiled.

The poor man was confused about the reaction of the artist, so he left him and went out spreading rumors that the artist was so rich, but he was a selfish person,who only accumulated wealth and refused to help the poor.

The villagers hated the old artist and they all forsook him.

The old artist became sick and could not do anything for himself, nobody among the villagers cared to visit him or helped him, so he died a lonely old man. 

Days passed,the villagers observed that the butcher stopped free distribution of meat and the baker didn't give the poor people free loaves of bread any more.

When the butcher and the baker were asked why they stopped helping the poor in the villager, they both said that: "the late old artist used to donate money every month to pay for the free meat and bread,they gave to the poor people in the village. Now that he was dead, there was nobody to pay for the free food anymore"

Actually, many people may have wrong impressions and different opinions about you.

But do not allow any of them to influence or destroy who you are.

Do not pass judgment on anyone based on his physical appearance or what people say about him.

There are things about his personal life you do not know.

If you were privileged to know about them, your judgment would surely be different.

 A man died in a drinking- spot / dance hall.

 Another person died in the Church. 

 If we are to judge them, we would say that the 1st man died a sinner and the 2nd man died a righteous man.

But the 1st man entered the drinking spot to preach, while the 2nd man entered the Church to steal.          

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