Hello!! So much has happened this month I need to share. But I’ll do that later.
Sometimes I wonder what has happened to humanity.
Because everywhere you look all you see is calamity
So easily ignoring the gravity of our reality
Falling deeper and deeper into depravity
Cause you see,
We’ve put ourselves into this situation
Stuck in this complication
Where the truth of His affection
Has been lost in translation
Leaving us in this desperation
Just to make it through another day in this mess we call life//
All around you see so many suffer
People stealing, cheating, killing each other
A daughter sold into slavery by her very own mother
Because
She needs money and thats one less mouth to feed//
You see,
Her husband lost his job so he’s been turning to the bottle
Thinking
That maybe with one more sip all the problems will go away
Maybe with one more sip he can forget the way
Things are
But instead he just gets angrier and angrier
Staggering back home to his wife just so he can beat herd
Just so he can release the frustration inside
Of watching his family struggling to survive
Little does he know with every swing he’s killing her
And his son is watching
Not really understanding
Whats going on
But he’s being made to think that whats happening really isn’t wrong
So when he has a family of his own someday
He’ll remember his father and handle things the way
He did
And the cycle continues.
Meanwhile the daughter is living in hell
Her body has become something to sell
To the highest bidder
No matter how hard they hit her
She cant complain about the pain
They’ll just inject some drug into her vein
Because her next client ready and waiting
No one cares about her
They only care about what they get from her
She’s a cash crop
A lifeless prop in the hands of men who could care less
About her feelings they just want to her undress//
So she grows up thinking she has nothing to offer but her body
Her dreams don’t matter because her life is controlled by somebody
else.
Jesus, what has our world become?
In Uganda children are taken from their homes by the cover of night
Robbed of their childhood, they are forced to fight
In a war they barely even know
Brainwashed into killing machines that rape and steal
More and more forgetting what its like to feel
Love and compassion, the warmth of a hug
Now all they know is how to be a thug
If they can escape where would they go?
Living in conflict is all that they know
Their families wont accept them
Their communities disowned them
So they have nothing left but memories to haunt them
In Thailand girls are sold into sex slavery
Raped by strangers and beaten daily
Her body is a toy they can have their way with
Not caring what happens or if she get’s pregnant
Slowly killing her spirit, destroying any remnant
Of hope or joy she has left
Trapped in a prison of the body and mind
Never resting, always trying to find
A way out
I cant help but wonder
Why
Are so many homes breaking and hearts aching
Turning to drugs and alcohol
To relieve the pain of it all
Rather than seeking the love of the Father
The love that once tasted they’ll never have to bother
Seeking anything else to satisfy
Why
Do we judge the poor for being poor
When
We could always give more
Cause
He gave more than we could ever ask for
His very life
Why are we so quick to follow society
And its twisted ideology
That gives us the right to modify
The truth into a lie
That we can just hang people out to dry
That we can ignore the cry
Of those in need
Rather than trying to help them
Because they have been deemed “inferior”
What we fail to realize
Is that
This world is filling us with lies
That its
Okay to judge and criticize
People we despise
Blinding our eyes
To see Jesus inside of them
We’re told that
The addicts deserve whats coming to them
And
Prostitutes enjoy the life they’re livin’
And
The homeless oughtta be more driven
And
Those lazy beggars shouldnt be given
Anything
Because
Its a dog-eat-dog world out there
And we dont have time to spare to care
For one another
Cause caring means sharing
And that just isnt profitable
So here I lift my eyes to the skies
To the One who hears my cries
Father take my hand
Take me higher
Help me to understand
Walk me through the refining fire
Break off these scales open my eyes to see
That there’s so much more to life than me
Its about Your kingdom that sets captives free
Your kingdom of love thats an eternal guarantee
That we are forever Yours//
Jesus You humbled yourself and entered our story
That through depravity could shine Your glory
That by Your death on the cross
You could make something beautiful out of us
To do something beautiful through us
Your Spirit is calling us
Come up higher
Come into Me, beloved one
Let the blood of My Son
Wash over you
Let My love cover you
And I will make you new
So Jesus show me how
To see You in the here and now
Your Kingdom alive and thriving
Give me the strength to keep striving
In bringing heaven to this earth
Binding up the broken and the hurt
Loving the lonely like they’re worth
Your cross speaks of a better way
Of the love that won on the third day
Through Your redemption we can see
The way things are is not the way things have to be
An update on this past month in Nepal coming soon…
