"Learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow's cause."
Isaiah 1:17
My sister came downstairs and asked me if I was ok....I told her I was, but then as I have been thinking about it, I'm really not ok. My heart is heavy, its full of disgust, its full of anger and shock.
Whenever I have the chance I like to support Love146 another organization committed to seeing Child Sex Slavery gone one day. But today as me and my friend Haley were driving back from St. Cloud I found myself not being able to engage with her. We had just got done volunteering at an event for awareness of Human Trafficking. I found my mind in another place, a place of disbelief. At the event today a woman who spoke for, Not for sale was doing her thing, speaking about the issue. All the things she was saying were things I had heard before, until she mentioned how MN is 13th in the states, just the states for Human Trafficking activity...Yeah, I had known it was happening in the states. But it made me almost ashamed that this was happening next to me, next to where I live. She said, Mall of America is one of the biggest areas the trading happens....ahhh man guys I felt like I had been knocked out.
Sometimes I get worried at how naive I can be.
How comfortable I can get in my own life,
doing my own things,
working my own job,
making my own money,
driving my own car,
having freedom to do what I want...
I get that I won't be able to change the world, I get that alone I can't do much. That in order to succeed in most things I need people supporting me. But what I'm having trouble with right now is how blind we can become.
How scared we can become to stand up for something that could cause our comfortable lives to shift, to change, to become uncomfortable.
I'm struggling with the fact that some days I would rather buy my cup of coffee, drive my car, and sleep in my bed then take the time out of my day to pray for...no better yet, to research more about the problems happening in my area. Not only research, but after researching ACT, to DO SOMETHING.
I want to do something, I want to become involved, I want to change the world. But that won't happen unless other people are supporting the same cause...and that whole thing won't happen if Jesus is not involved.
That is one thing that Haley and I talked about on our car ride back home is that in order for ANY of these organizations to thrive, and to be effective Jesus needs to be the center. The victims of trafficking need to realize there is another way of life, that they don't have to keep living in hell. It concerned us that organizations that are "christian" based will sway what they say to different audiences. Is God not the ultimate hope, the ultimate restorer? Does he not provide in ways unimaginable? The victims of trafficking won't know true life until we share what true life is.
Jesus let us see how you see. Let our hearts break for the oppression these young girls and boys are facing. Show us, let us into your heart. Father we want and desire for the chains to be broken, for the oppressed to be free. Give us a way to bring your hope, love, and healing into the places that are broken, hopeless, and dirty. Help us to see the people behind all this evil, help us see that the ones who run the brothels, the ones who traffic the slaves are also made in your image, you still love them. But we know you are a God who loves to see justice take place, you are a God who hates seeing your children abused. We trust you will do what you need to do, and that you will show us what we need to do.
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