Run To Our Refuge
“Then the LORD said to Joshua: ‘Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses, so that anyone who kills a person accidentally and unintentionally may flee there and find protection from the avenger of blood.’” — Joshua 20:1–3
In August 2017, violence broke out in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, after a militant group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) claimed responsibility for attacks on police and army posts. In retaliation, Myanmar’s government razed at least 55 villages and waged a brutal campaign against the Rohingya, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee.
Through the years than 700,00 refugees have walked for days through jungles and mountains to seek shelter in Bangladesh. In these refugee camps there are approximately 1,500 Rohingya Christians — who are also persecuted by non-believing Rohingya.
One Christian refugee wrote from the refugee camp: “There are seventy-eight families who are followers of Jesus, and we (my family and me) are taking care of them. They have all converted from Islam to Christianity. They are mostly my relatives and neighbors from Myanmar.”
Today in prayer, pray for the 69 million refugees in this world and thank Christ that He is your refuge in this turbulent world.
