As I have been thinking about today’s messages, my mind cannot escape the fact that so many are suffering in this world.
The following posts are some I have gathered together from other sources that so vividly portray a society that is suffering so much in this world today.
My wife and I have formed the non-profit “Moral Lights”, and I encourage you to go to our website, and see some of the stories that are listed there under “Her Story”. Sex-trafficking and domestic abuse in families is very rampant today.
I am asking you to pray for those you may specifically know in these situations, but also to join in this fight with us to rescue these victims, and provide HOPE in their life.
As Wilson Adams states in the first post, Eastern Europe is rampant with sex-trafficking. However, as we look around in our own country today, we are also seeing the same thing happening here.
Let’s join together, and with the blessings of an Almighty God behind us, reach out and help the helpless.
I can’t say it any better than the writer of Proverbs 31:8-9 – “Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of the unfortunate. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.”
Another issue, not commented on in today’s posts, is that of abortion. The murder of over 60 million innocent babies since Roe vs. Wade.
Do what you can. No one can do it all, but all of us banding together (with the Lord) can achieve much in this fight.
#1 – It’s easier not to know.
Up late last night on a call re: another sex trafficking situation. There’s no way we “get” the extreme plight of East-Europe orphan girls. They have no place else to go. And the traffickers know it.
So, they groom. And wait…
With promises of jobs in Germany (hotel clerks, nannies, etc.) they lure them away with glitz and glamor. And then sell them. Who cares? No one. Who prosecutes? No one.
The average lifespan of a young Roma girl sold into the sex slavery? Seven years. Less than half of orphaned girls in eastern Europe will live to see their 20th birthday.
It’s one of the reasons I wrote “I Am Lea November.” The sex-slave market is a sick pandemic in that part of the world.
As one trafficker said, “I can buy a girl for $10,000 and make my money back in two weeks!”
We are working to snatch as many as we can from Satan’s fire. Knowing and not doing is not an option…
Wilson Adams
#2 – The people in the pew…
They are parents burdened because of their prodigal children…
They are grandparents raising grandchildren because if they don’t…
They are caregivers wondering if anyone understands…
They are single parents facing double duty…
They are brethren struggling with secret sins and failing again…
They are smiling faces hoping to hide their depression…
They are a childless couple facing disappointment (again)…
They are folks facing both cancer and fears…
They are parents who have had to do the unthinkable: bury a child…
They are parents struggling to raise a special needs child…
They are brothers and sisters who have done everything they know to keep their marriage going, but failed…
They are widows who sit down as one at a table for two…
They are sisters who harbor the secret of being a battered wife…
They are stepparents who seem to be on the outside looking in…
They are the lonely, the scared, the hurting…
Etc.
But they come. They come to the Table to share their grief with the One who gave His all.
They come to lift up their voice in song while brushing away a tear. They come to pray and connect with their only hope.
They come to encourage someone else while hoping someone will encourage them.
They come to hear the Good News and hope to take something away that will heal their hurt.
These are the people in the pew. Funny, they look a lot like you…and me. At least we come.
Wilson Adams
#3 – Hope
“When circumstances tempt you to despair of life itself and feel like a prisoner of weariness, let it drive you toward a deeper hope in the gospel, greater dependence on Christ, and a stronger fight for faith. One day, God will turn our mourning into dancing. One day, He will wipe away every tear.
The darkness will be no more, and our faith will become sight. Hold firmly to the hope you have in Christ, strengthen your weary heart with the promises of God’s Word, and trust that the light will dawn again.”
Megan
