December 10, 2012

Stand with me?

Yesterday Steven and I went to go see a movie that shook me so badly I am still recovering from it. No it wasn’t too graphically violent and no it wasn’t rant with nudity or any of those reasons. So what got me so riled up? this movie was about the human trafficking industry…specifically about child trafficking. its hard to even write about it now because my soul was so moved. I have a close friend, Elizabeth, who for about a year now has been really talking about this slavery that still exists in our modern world. I was interested and sure I felt sadness for these people but it didn’t really touch me the way it had her. I shrugged and moved on. Yesterday that all changed.

I was shaking so badly after the movie and I thought I was going to vomit… It wasn’t graphic but it depicted girls of seven, eight, nine, 13, 14 getting moved like a product that was on demand. Children that full grown men reveled in defiling. God broke my heart during that movie. It almost felt as though he was sitting there to and said, “see my children are being crushed…what will you do about it? You have claimed you wanted to do great things in my name and go to missions, what about the children in Lakewood Colorado and Seattle Washington that are being sold for the depravity of those who have turned their backs on me?”

This is something I just can’t ignore any longer. How can I go day to day knowing this is happening in my back yard and all over the world and stay silent about this? I know I am just one person and this problem is so much bigger than I am but that can’t be something I let stand in my way. if there were hundreds of being swept from the shore line into the ocean wouldn’t I do everything in my power to help every single one that I could? Would I just shrug and say “that wave is way too big for me to tackle and man there are just too many kids to get so I might as well just sit here and let the hand full of life guards do all the work.” NO! I would be doing everything in my power to save as many as I could even if that meant just one!

I realize that this is my conviction and I can’t get anyone to do anything about this epidemic but it saddens me how many in the church do exactly what I did for a long time. shrug and ask to be given a task that they are easier with. So this is the question I put to my readers, will you rise up and be a voice for those who have none? will you stand with me, step out of our little Christianity bubble and go to the broken? I am not sure how this is going to play out but I am figuring it out and once I do I am going to be moving full steam ahead. Will you be with me or no?