Sheba just attended an excellent consultation on fostering organised by OASIS India. The gentleman who came (Michael Pease of SFAC) talked about the crucial need for families to open up their homes to children who are unable to live in homes. How many times have we read the scriptures about God's care for the fatherless and the orphan - and assumed that this is for others.Fact: we are God's answer to the world.
Fact: God wants the abandoned, unloved children around us to be in families.
Fact: if we do not foster - who will?
When it comes to taking someone in - we always think of the 'inconvenience'. So much like everyone else.
The OASIS folks said something. Mumbai has at least 1000 churches. What if each church takes in one widow-headed family - and at least one family in each church takes in a child.
Lets get on our knees. We are as a couple - and really ask God to show us when - not even whether. The Lord places the lonely into families (Ps. 68.6) but does not say that these will be 'ideal children' (see pic above for one way of understanding the ideal child). We know this - God loves children - and his heart aches for the unloved - and abandonned.
We must obey - no matter how tough it may be.
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