'Sir'
Last night I was talking to ‘Sir’, one of the men I met almost three years ago on the prostitute outreach. He’s one of my ‘favorite’ guys out there – him two or three others that I talk to pretty regularly.
Sir is one of the older, if not the oldest guy that hangs out there. I menitioned it in one of my past blog which probably isn’t up yet – the very first time I met Sir I walked up to him, stuck my hand out to introduce myself, and he said, “I don’t shake anyone’s hand” and I said, “Oooooh, what are you, too good for me?” (Not in a snotty way, more of like a joking around way) He looked at me funny and said, “No, it’s just a street law we have out here. What are you doing out here at 4 in the morning talking to people anyway?” I told him that I was telling people about Jesus.
He asked, “Why now? Why not on Sunday morning, like most normal people do?” I told him that for one, “I’m not normal, but also because Jesus is not just a ‘Sunday’ day for me, He’s an every day for me!”
Then I gave him a little of my testimony, how I used to be strung out on heroin and prostituted to support my habit, etc. By the end of our conversation, I asked him again if he’d shake my hand, and he did, and now he always does – but mostly he gives both Daryl and I hugs.
Anyway, I’ve been thinking about him (praying all the time) about what he could do (jobwise) once he gets saved (yes, he WILL get saved and delivered soon in Jesus’ Name!) to support himself instead of what he’s doing now. I imagine if you’ve been doing something all your life and it’s all you know – like if you were dealing drugs for example – you drop out (or get kicked out) of school for doing drugs, so to support you habit of getting high – you deal them. Then 30 years later after going in and out of jail and you’re pretty sick of it – but it’s the only way you’ve known to support yourself, you have no other real skills, (for a job) referrences, or a resume – the only real (legitimate) job you could get is working at a fast food place or grocery store or something. But after making fast ‘easy’ money – who’s going to want to do that? Epecially if a person is accustomed to expensive, nice things…
When I was backslidden – I know even for myself – once I started prostituting, I didn’t want to go back to working a ‘normal’ full time job. The money from prostituting was so quick and ‘easy’ (although it did take it’s toll after a while) I could make at least as much if not 2 or 3 times more in ten minutes than someone who worked a legitimate job could make in a whole day.
Seriously, I know that it must be difficult for someone like Sir who is getting older – he doesn’t have to many options. So I am talking to him about something that my friend Jackie is starting up. I think it would be great for him – he wouldn’t have to work, all he’d have to do is come to a class for 1 1/2 hour a week. The class would be all about Jesus, and the salvation message. The hour and a half may even be just attending church. That would be the requirement for receiving the money. The money would start as a few hundred dollars a month and work it’s way up to thousands.
It’s all about getting people saved! My back is hurting and I need to go and lie down, but when I have more time, I want to sit down and try to explain it the best I can, how the money gets to you. But Jackies been working on this for some years now, and I am finally seeing how it can work, and very well at that.
But I explained some of it Sir just to throw it out there. He said it sounds wild, but interesting. So the next time I see him I want to be ready to give him more information about it. Daryl and I are going to do it, and when it starts moving, who knows how big it will get?
Utah in three days… I checked out the weather on the internet. Man, my body is RACKED in pain. Especially my back. The weather is changing and my body is feeling it. The weather in Utah eems to be in the low eighties and drops to the low fifties at night. Lord, thank You for giving me the grace I need to make it…
Anyway, I need to lie down. Laundry and getting ready for Utah Tuesday for a week. I’m excited! God is so good!
