caught in traffick

I don’t know how you feel about human trafficking.

I don’t know what thoughts you may have gathered on the subject.

I’ll tell you how I feel about it.

HATRED.

Hatred that right now there are women here in our country that have been imported and kept as sex slaves. Hatred that there are men here who are used to produce and package drugs. Hatred that some of the chocolate we eat was made with coco from slave labour in Africa. Hatred that men from here in Western Europe fly to Asian countries and go to brothels filled with children stolen from poor homes and the governments don’t give a damn.

Men. Women. Children. Slaves.

Conservative numbers estimated 30 million slaves world wide in 2008. Liberal ones estimated 200 million.We kid ourselves into thinking that we’re basically good people because our country has signed some crap UN paper written in Geneva by guys in suits. Some of those same guys support the industry when they online porn, some of which is produced using forced, slave labour in the form of sexual exploitation. Enjoy your viewing delegate. Chocolate?

In Psalm 10 David calls out to God when he sees this kind of situation. He says: Arise, O LORD! Punish the wicked, O God! Do not ignore the helpless! Why do the wicked get away with despising God? They think, “God will never call us to account.” But you see the trouble and grief they cause. You take note of it and punish them. The helpless put their trust in you. You defend the fatherless.Jesus is the one who brings ultimate justice to our world. If we are to see justice brought to this issue it must be through God’s people calling out to him night and day to liberate the captive and punish the oppressor. Please, commit yourself to taking 30 seconds (or more!) a day to call upon God until He brings Justice.Jesus left the freedom of Heaven and came to earth to die as a slave that you and I might be free. If he has done this for us, shouldn’t we do the same for our fellow humans? If you really believe the gospel, you will.