no-longer-a-slumdog

No Longer a Slumdog
We know that God’s ears are attentive to the pleas of the captives.
Jesus said He came for this very purpose: “The Spirit of the
Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” (Luke 4:18, kjv).
God the Almighty was moved with compassion over the suffering,
oppression and slavery of His people, the “children of Israel.”
It might be interesting to note that the Dalits are also called
“Harijan.” Although it has now become a derogatory term, it is a
name that literally means “children of god.” God cares about the
suffering of the Dalits as much as He cared about those who were
slaves in Egypt.
And how did He respond
When God saw their suffering, He told Moses, “I have indeed
seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying
out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their
suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of
the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good
and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey. . . . I have
seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am
sending you” (Exodus 3:7–10, emphasis mine).
When God spoke to Moses, naturally we might assume that
God Himself was coming down to earth to do this rescuing, saving
work. Right
No.
Instead, God says to Moses, “Go. I am sending you” (Exodus
3:10, emphasis mine).
If God were coming down to save His people, why did He
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