Cry for Justice

At a busy traffic junction, a child runs up to the car and shoves her dirty hands on the window. Most of us find such children irritating; some of us nervously look away, not knowing how to react, for many such children are invisible.

That child symbolizes in a small way the injustice in our nation. A child deprived of adequate food, a child deprived of schooling, malnourished, without proper shelter, without clean water and breathing in polluted air, prone and exposed to all sorts of disease and abuse.

Whose responsibility is that child?

Habakkuk looked and saw the wickedness around him and cried out to God asking "How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds (1:2,3)

Habakkuk looked and saw the wickedness around him and cried out to God asking "How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds (1:2,3)

Habakkuk looked around him and said that - the law is paralysed, justice never prevails, the wicked hem in the righteous and justice is perverted. As injustice increased he wondered, "Where in the world could God be? How could God stand back and let His people become more and more wicked without stepping in and bringing the nation to its knees as in days past?

In India it is estimated that 456 million live below the poverty line. 75 million children do not have access to education. Out of 1000 children that are born, 60 die. For every 100,000 children born alive 450 mothers die.

Why? Why must some people suffer this injustice?

Micah Challenge a global campaign to mobilise Christians against poverty, a campaign which seeks to deepen Christian engagement with impoverished and marginalised communities, and to influence leaders of rich and poor nations to fulfil their promise to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (www.micahchallenge.co.in) invites you to join with us as we Cry out for Justice to God.

As Habakkuk cried out to God on seeing the injustice around him, we invite you to join us on 9/9/09 so that as a nation, with one accord, we pray for justice in our nation.