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Photo: Far from home, an Iraqi refugee boy faces an uncertain future.
Day 7: The Divine Expectation
Prayer: Father in heaven, I yield my heart and mind to you. Please help me understand your perspective of refugees and know how you want me to respond.
In a world in which one in every 122 people is forcibly displaced and 42,500 people are newly uprooted every day, the chances are good that some of these women, children and men will cross your path.
God has clear expectations when it comes to how we relate to our neighbor, the foreigner and the stranger.
As you read today’s texts, consider the very practical ways we are called to love the foreigner and stranger. How might these apply to the way you relate to refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in your country, city and neighborhood? Do these divine mandates provoke any internal tension or defensiveness? Why? Listen for the voice of God in the tension. What is he telling you?
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The world is facing a global refugee crisis. No country is left untouched. Heated public debate makes it difficult to know how to respond to this challenge. Some voices paint refugees as a threat to national security. Ot...
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We would like to thank Tom Albinson and International Association for Refugees. For more information, please visit: www.IAFR.org
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