no-longer-a-slumdog
no-longer-a-slumdog
no-longer-a-slumdog
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No Longer a Slumdog<br />
but also for help and love and hope . . . yet they can’t find any.<br />
I certainly don’t want anyone to feel guilty about lovingly<br />
caring for our own children and grandchildren. But the question<br />
remains: Is there also room in our hearts for one or two of the<br />
world’s millions of suffering children, and can we also care for<br />
them in Jesus’ name Can we see them as Jesus does, so special to<br />
Him, their worth like jewels beyond compare<br />
Are we willing to have our hearts break with His at such<br />
sights, k<strong>no</strong>wing these are children who suffer so much in this<br />
life and have <strong>no</strong> hope of heaven in the next, simply because they<br />
k<strong>no</strong>w <strong>no</strong>thing of the hope that is in Christ<br />
I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach<br />
out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they<br />
matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach<br />
them with His love.<br />
We must learn to look away from our own worlds to care for<br />
what God cares about. Let’s <strong>no</strong>t devote our energies into trinkets<br />
and mindless self-indulgence that have <strong>no</strong> eternal value, but instead<br />
learn to invest in these children God cares about so much.<br />
They truly are the least of the least—the ig<strong>no</strong>red, unfed, abused<br />
and unloved. And we are told by our Lord that we can<strong>no</strong>t turn a<br />
blind eye to their plight.<br />
Special Assignment<br />
Our Father in heaven is greatly concerned about the welfare<br />
of these helpless children. In fact, God has special angels assigned<br />
to watch over them at all times. Let us look again at Matthew<br />
18:10 (nasb): “See that you do <strong>no</strong>t despise one of these little<br />
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