Awareness of the issue is only the very first step. When we hear of such perversions occurring around the world today, we can no longer sit idle with empty, hollow, shallow faith. If Christ is our Lord and Savior, we can utilize HIS Power and SHINE HIS Light! We must wake up and realize that we are the ones who hold the power to change this. There are those in place, on the front lines, who are fighting the battle in the slums. And THE VERY LEAST we can do is spread awareness and contribute our meager offerings to support these brave brothers and sisters in Christ.
One of my personal friends is a victim of human trafficking who is far and away one of the deepest women of faith I have ever met. I have also had the privilege of meeting many other incredible women who have been rescued out of this dehumanizing industry. Please understand that my plea is not from one on the outside, but from someone who has sat at the kitchen table to listen to the inside stories that will keep you up at night. I have watched tears fall from precious eyes that have seen too much, at too young an age. And yet, I have heard these same voices praise our Father with such purity and gratitude. I have watched beauty radiating from these ladies that has been resurrected from a life of ashes. Redemption is HIS Plan! HE offers is to ALL!! Let's spread the Good News of the Gospel to as many people as we can, as fast as we can!
And what are we doing with those that HE has so graciously entrusted to us? What are we teaching them? To earn the almighty dollar? To chase after and pursue things of this world (money, fame, the world's approval, etc.)? Are we teaching them to only be concerned with themselves-with our ridiculous age of perpetual selfies and endless striving for human perfection and self-satisfaction?
Why not give up the empty rewards of a world that will fade away and teach them about the treasures that will last for an eternity? Why not teach them that to give is better than to receive? Why not show by example that where our treasure is, there our heart is also? Why not demonstrate that Greater Love-the one that lays down his/her life for their friend?
I, we-these four kids of mine and I, know about the brevity of life. Won't you also look around and understand that you too only have this short, one little life to give. You will give it...that I promise you! Where you will give it...now that is your choice!
One of my personal friends is a victim of human trafficking who is far and away one of the deepest women of faith I have ever met. I have also had the privilege of meeting many other incredible women who have been rescued out of this dehumanizing industry. Please understand that my plea is not from one on the outside, but from someone who has sat at the kitchen table to listen to the inside stories that will keep you up at night. I have watched tears fall from precious eyes that have seen too much, at too young an age. And yet, I have heard these same voices praise our Father with such purity and gratitude. I have watched beauty radiating from these ladies that has been resurrected from a life of ashes. Redemption is HIS Plan! HE offers is to ALL!! Let's spread the Good News of the Gospel to as many people as we can, as fast as we can!
And what are we doing with those that HE has so graciously entrusted to us? What are we teaching them? To earn the almighty dollar? To chase after and pursue things of this world (money, fame, the world's approval, etc.)? Are we teaching them to only be concerned with themselves-with our ridiculous age of perpetual selfies and endless striving for human perfection and self-satisfaction?
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (AMP)
Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord]. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your [mind and] heart and with your entire being and with all your might. And these words which I am commanding you this day shall be [first] in your [own] minds andhearts; [then] You shall whet and sharpen them so as to make them penetrate, and teach and impress them diligently upon the [minds and] hearts of your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets (forehead bands) between your eyes. And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Why not give up the empty rewards of a world that will fade away and teach them about the treasures that will last for an eternity? Why not teach them that to give is better than to receive? Why not show by example that where our treasure is, there our heart is also? Why not demonstrate that Greater Love-the one that lays down his/her life for their friend?
I, we-these four kids of mine and I, know about the brevity of life. Won't you also look around and understand that you too only have this short, one little life to give. You will give it...that I promise you! Where you will give it...now that is your choice!
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