There is this country song that goes something like, “Everybody
wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go now.” It’s popular, we have probably all heard it. Well.
It is a bunch of crap.
There are MILLIONS and adding, of people all over the world
who desperately wish they could be in heaven. Even a place to sleep would feel
like heaven to most…. For a trafficked child, a night where there are not men
having sex with them all night long and they didn’t have to sleep alone in a cold
cement room, or didn’t have their eye gouged out when they ask for a break, would feel
like heaven.
My heart is ripping out of my chest in pain. CHURCH! PLEASE! CHURCH! There is a crisis. CHURCH CHURCH CHURCH.
Many people have said to me before I left on the race, “You
are just going to travel the world and make people convert to your religion.” Tell that to the little orphan, the trafficked child, the lonely prostitute,
who is desperate to have someone come and tell them something different.
Someone to come and not buy them for sex. But someone to tell them that there
is this man named Jesus, who bought them back, by dying for you on the cross.
To tell them there is a loving father in heaven that is going to hold you in is arms, and he
will use the church, his people to hold you. There is a man named Jesus who won’t
use you for sex, but use you for a grand purpose and he wants to heal you. And
he wants to tell you that you are beautiful and that you are written on the
palm of his hand and in the book of LIFE. There is a man named Jesus, who is
here, in us, to bring you out of darkness and into a marvelous light, who is
bringing you out of death and calling you into life. He has sent us, the
church, the Christians, because he loves you.
“You just want to convert them to your religion”….. It’s converting them out of darkness
and into light.
So IM begging you, for the people that are too weak to beg
you, and probably can’t even imagine being rescued even if they begged. Can we
be the generation that doesn’t sit quiet? But is loud. Has a voice. Fights for
those who can’t. Can we be the generation that dreams the impossible, because
we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us? Can we be the
generation that doesn’t live in an attitude of SELF, but live in a self-giving
attitude? Can we be the generation that doesn’t go to college to find the job
that makes the most money, but to go to college to make a difference? Let’s do
this. It doesn’t mean we all need to go travel to the other side of the world.
But it does mean to search out those people that so desperately want to be in
heaven. It might be the rich in money,
but poor in spirits, lonely white person at your 9 to 5 whose spouse cheated on them, or it
might be the lonely orphan in Africa. Everyone needs Jesus. Everyone has hurts and fears.
To all my family and friends. To anyone who reads this. If
you could just watch one video that I post thus far, please let it be this one.
I have a heart for human trafficking. I
was able to experience the sex industry in Thailand, just able to scratch the
surface of its twisted ways.
BUT PLEASE times a million, I am asking you to watch this short
trailer for a full-length film on human trafficking that should come out internationally
in the next few years. It’s about the raw painful TRUTH but also about the HOPE.
I love you all. And I believe in each one of you.
