In Cambodia, little girls are sold into sex slavery and forced to have sex repeatedly for years, starting at ages as young as four years old. They are gang-raped, beaten, used, abused, drugged, demoralized, degraded, soiled, used, and abandoned.We buy our daughters Barbie dolls and airbrush our models and idolize anorexic anesthetized remnants of what used to be the promise of something so much more. We embrace the idea of parading our daughters naked for all the world to see, claiming we are modern, when all the while, we are pimping them, abusing them, exploiting, demoralizing, degrading, soiling, using and abandoning them.
It is time for the warriors to arise and open our eyes and see the beauty longing to be rescued right before our eyes. When will she cease to be the god of sensuality and pleasure promising to satiate the abyss within our own souls? When will the mind-altering, mind-numbing, emasculating, self-serving veil be lifted?
The girl-child takes mind altering drugs to somehow protect her conscious self from the horror of being displayed, used and abused by the pedophile, the tourist, the camera man, the media, the audience, the masses of people under the same dark cloud that keeps them from seeing the truth.
There is a Man who rises with the roar of the lion in His chest and the fury of a thousand fathers in His eyes. To ride with Him, it will take much more than mental fortitude or theological certainty. It will take a visit into His throneroom, a snapshot through His eyes, a revelation of supernatural proportions. Do you dare take the risk? Do you dare ask Him to show you what He sees?
(photo above found at georgepechtol.com)
He has and continues show me as one of His sons, what He sees!
ReplyDeleteI love the scripture that says, "Jesus did not commit Himself unto them . . . for He knew what was in man." John 2:24-25
Our Lord trusted no man, yet He was never suspicious, never bitter. Our Lord's confidence in God and in what His grace could do for any man, was so perfect that He despaired of no one. If our trust is placed in human beings, we shall end in despairing of everyone. (Quoted from Oz Chambers).
What I have and continue to have made soberly clear to me is, that within all (our) flesh Christian or not is a total and complete depravity. The very heinous, repulsive and disgusting things you mentioned in your post, I see that same depravity within us all, and knowing apart from His grace we are all fully capable of this and so much more.
Fallen humanity loves to categorize things such as the flesh, there's sinful flesh and for others, there's religious flesh, and then along comes Jesus who calls a spade a spade, "That which is born of the flesh IS Flesh!"
Yes, absolutely, Richard!
ReplyDeleteIt is an incredible thing to hear the Voice crying, "awaken sleeper! arise from the dead and Christ will shine on you!" Even more amazing perhaps is the idea that He could grab hold of one such wretch and use him or her as a vessel to pour out those very Words over the hearts and minds of whomever is listening!
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Well said, my Friend!
ReplyDeleteIf this is a battle you feel led to fight, I can introduce you to our Missionary Brother, David, in England.
He has just returned from Phnom Penh, where he fought in this war for almost 10 years.
Let me know.
Blessings,
Gary
There are number of warriors fighting this fight. Here are some others who are helping:
ReplyDeletewww.transitionsglobal.com (sheltering those who have been rescued) and www.tradethemovie.com (a movie about the problem and a site that gives avenues for providing help).