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Pandita Ramabai A Defender of Widows and Children, Part 2
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When Pandita Ramabai saw the mistreatment of widows and children in India, it moved her heart to want to see conditions change. After her husband died, she traveled to England to advance her education. One day, the Christians she stayed with invited her to visit a rescue home for downtrodden women. When she spoke with some of the women who had once been in the home receiving help and were now working to help others, she noted that “they had so completely changed and were so filled with the love of Christ and compassion for suffering humanity, that they had given their life for the sick and infirm.”
Then she admitted, “Here for the first time in my life, I came to know that something should be done to reclaim the so-called fallen women; and the Christians, whom our country considered outcaste and cruel, were kind to these unfortunate women, degraded in the eyes of society.”
When Pandita asked one of the Christian ladies what made these women want to help other women who were struggling so much, she read to her the story of the woman at the well in John 4. The Christian then spoke of the infinite love of Christ for sinners. Pandita had never heard anything like this in the religious books she had read. It began to dawn on her that Jesus Christ truly was a Divine Savior and that “no one but He could transform and uplift the downtrodden” women in this world.
In 1891, Pandita came to a clear understanding of the true nature of Christianity and was led, by the Holy Spirit, to grasp the deeper things of God. “One thing I knew by this time,” she later wrote, “was that I needed Christ and not merely His religion. I was desperate. What was to be done? My thoughts could not and did not help me. I had at last come to an end of myself, and unconditionally surrendered myself to the Savior, and asked Him to be merciful to me, and to become my righteousness and redemption, and to take away all my sin.”
God was about to use this humble and brilliant woman to become a valiant defender of widows and orphans in India.
Reflect: Can you recall a time in your life when a new religious truth began to dawn in your mind? When you take time each day to study the Bible, the Lord will speak to your heart in a powerful way.
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The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down. Psalm 146:9
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