I've acknowledged and labeled this post as an opinion because that is what it is. I welcome comments, facts and other opinions on this matter. Maybe my vision is a bit skewed but I couldn't believe what I read in a religious publication last night...
The article was about human trafficking. I was glad to hear that people were getting the word out and informing young women to be cautious and on alert. Below is an excerpt toward the end of the article. Please read it and see if anything sticks out, especially if you are a Christ-follower...
"Smith also underscored the importance of working with law enforcement. She told about a time when a member of her staff was asked if he would like to buy a girl for $10.
"We reported it, but my immediate reaction was to be a vigilante, to go help her, " Smith confessed. But we must work with law enforcement. When I've told this story before, some have asked, 'Why didn't you pay the $10 and at least save that one girl?' But if I had done that, I would be guilty of criminal activity.
"Many faith-based groups with good intentions disrupt or hamper investigations, but our job is to be the eyes and ears of law enforcement."
I changed my mind-all I would be able to write would be...not good...so instead, I had to cry out to Jesus.
Dear Jesus!!! Really? REALLY?!?
I cannot imagine having the opportunity to purchase a girl's freedom for $10 and not doing...for ANY reason. I can't imagine having within my reach, the opportunity to physically free a young woman from one more man ravaging her body and destroying her soul and refusing it. So call me guilty and lock me up...I know my heart. They called You guilty and punished You...and You willingly received it, so I could be free, so I could be pure.
Jesus, is our job really to work with 'law enforcement'? Are we really to be the "eyes and ears of law enforcement" or are we to be the "hands and feet of You?"
You are at work. YOU are sovereign. I trust You and I pray for mercy for these young women. And I pray for courage for those of us who are learning about them. I ask for grace upon hearing stories like this one and I ask You to help me trust You more with each one that I hear. I thank YOU for organizations who are working to free these young women and like the one in the article, that are making people aware. I ask that You would touch the very souls of these young women enslaved...that each moment, in the midst of the hell they find themselves in, that they would know there is Hope. Oh Jesus.....
God of heaven and earth! When will we see Your face??
