Raj was one of six children born into a very wealthy Brahmin family - the highest caste in the Indian caste system.
At
the age of twenty-three, Raj encountered Jesus Christ. His family
disinherited him. They cut him off. As far as they were concerned he was
dead. They even held a funeral service for him. Neither his parents,
nor his brothers and sisters have ever spoken to him again.For several weeks he wandered around the streets of Bangalore. He had virtually no food to eat. He walked all day and slept in the park at night.
He started a new life. He began to speak about his new-found faith. Through him, thousands of other people encountered Jesus. He went on to lead a prayer movement of over 3 million people. Then, for several years, we were privileged that he was the National Director of Alpha in India. He said to us recently that he has had a blessed life and that God has more than compensated for his losses. Although he left ‘everything’, in Jesus Christ he found the ‘pearl… of great value’ (Matthew 13:45–46).
Relationships are your most valuable possession. There is one relationship for which you were created. This is the most valuable pearl of all. It is worth selling ‘everything’ in order to get hold of it.
By Nicky Gumbel.
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