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No Longer a Slumdog
C.S. Lewis put it very well when he said, “The more often we
feel without acting, the less we will be able ever to act, and, in the
long run, the less we will be able to feel.” 2
We have now walked together through almost all the pages
of this book. You have started to feel the pain and anguish of
these forgotten lives. I assume your heart was touched as you
read the real-life accounts of the Dalits, the OBCs and especially
their precious children.
Please don’t close your heart now. Don’t start to numb the
pain you feel for these suffering, helpless children. Please love
them. Love them in Jesus’ name.
You and I did not ask to be born and raised in the circumstances
and comforts we have. You too could have been born destitute
in one of the slums of Calcutta or in a Dalit family in Bihar.
You could have been that little slumdog, blinded and turned into
a street beggar. It’s true, you might even have been sold into the
sex business and died long before your 20th birthday.
God in His mercy gave us the privilege of living our lives with
the freedom and blessings words can’t describe. Just remember
Jesus’ words: “From everyone who has been given much, much
will be required” (Luke 12:48, nasb).
There is no need to feel guilt and self-condemnation for the
blessings we have. Instead, let us choose to see this challenge as an
opportunity to be like Jesus in our generation.
I think you will agree, once in a while God tries to break into
our normal lives and tell us something important. He brings a
matter to our attention that tears at our hearts, maybe even
brings us to our knees. But then, sadly, so often that is all that
happens. Although it consumes us for a little while and we can’t
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