By Village Missionary Movement

Tuesday, 02-Aug-2022

Daily Devotion (English) – 03.08.2022

 

Bad behaviour

 

“The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him” - Nahum 1:7

 

In 19th century India's one of the social disorders is devadasi system. Devoted parents left their daughters to work as dasis and dancers in temples. They believed that leaving their daughters to work as dasis in temples will please gods; inturn gods will bless them so happily named those children as "devdasis". Lot of young women was forced into this. 

 

Nobody is there to rescue them or show affection towards them. Amy Carmichael came from Ireland to India to stop this in 1885. Girls and women were sold to drama companies. To stop this devadasi system, she started Dohnavur fellowship in 1926.

 

She worked among orphans, women whose husband left them, widows, gave them shelter and showed them the love of God through action. She called this fellowship as "cluster of stars". Today Dohnavur fellowship is giving back their lives of thousands of people. 

 

Nowadays in slums, poor women are getting into prostitution so that they can run their families. I was working in a school; there I know a woman who left her 3 children and went with another man. In another family, parents left their children with their grandmother and separated. Children like these cannot afford breakfast and dinner so they will eagerly eat lunch is a pitiful sight. It is painful to see children who come to school with dirty clothes, uncombed and unclean hair. 

 

Jesus who came into this world to save the sinner said "do not sin again" to the woman caught red handed in prostitutions. The important character of Christianity is forgiveness, do we all have it?

- Mrs. Jasmine Paul

 

Prayer point. 

For God to meet the fund needed for the education of the missionary children.

 

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