Mumbai Slums

Yesterday morning we arrived here in Mumbai.  We drove from the airport back to the hotel.  I knew we were going to be in India, so I thought to myself, "Yeah, I'm going to be slumming it."  Entering into the hotel it was about what I expected (what we back home would call a slum).  We dropped off our luggage (in the hopes that it would still be there when we returned), then we went to get some lunch at an Indian restaurant (surprise! the curry puts what we have back in England to shame).  We then arrived in the slum.

I was greatly humbled!  The conditions in the slums are inhuman.  A family will live in a tiny room with a hole in the wall for a window. There is no toilet, only public toilets down the road.  Some of the slum rooms have a water pipe, but when the rainy season comes (which just ended), the sewage overflows and then contaminates the drinking water.

After returning from the slum to our hotel, it seemed like the Taj Mahal!!! What luxury we live in back home.  We westerners are exceedingly rich and a short visit to a slum like this will reveal that reality.

Numbers 11 - Cravings

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This devotional thought looks at how we can so easily be drawn back to life before freedom in Christ.

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What do the mountains teach us about the holiness of God? The Scriptures tell us that He touches the mountains and they smoke and that in His presence the mountains melt like wax.

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Only when we are weak do we realize we need a Saviour. God is our only Rescuer, but it seems only in weakness do we seek God. In this regard, weakness is a blessing because it enables us to call out to a Rescuer.