Her shoes fit in my hands…
The
shoes of a little girl wrenched from the bowels of a brothel in Cambodia
The
shoes that represent 1 of the 1.2 Million
children who are exploited by the global sex trade every year, in addition to the millions already
held captive by trafficking.
The shoes of ONE out of 30 MILLION children who
have lost their childhood to sexual exploitation over the past 30 years.
The shoes of a child, an orphan, who could not fight for herself
Could not speak for herself
Could not rescue herself
But needed someone who could
Or rather, who WOULD.
hearing a presentation
of the novel “Priceless.” In the presentation, he discussed
statistics that made me shudder, like the ones you saw above. He showed
pictures of actual brothels where children are trafficked in India, Romania,
Thailand. Interviews shown of rescued prostitutes haunted me as I was able to
look into the eyes of those who have experienced so much horror.
And then he brought out the shoes.
Those little shoes of a 7-year-old girl that had been rescued from a brothel in Cambodia.
And I was broken.
I wept as I have never wept before as a righteous anger swept over me, coupled with a sense of helplessness so profound that I felt I would be swallowed up.
I finally understood Psalms 10:9 in reference to Satan:
“He lies in wait like a lion in cover; he lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.”
As I wept in the Pavilion that night, clutching the Cambodian flag and beseeching the Lord for freedom for these children, I began to realize that the feeling of helplessness I so often use as an excuse for inaction is nothing but a lie from the Devil.
I am not helpless. You are not helpless. It is our JOB to stand between that roaring lion and those helpless orphans. As children of God, we have been given the power to defeat satan and the keys to set captives free.
It is dangerous. It may cost EVERYTHING. But in light of 2 million children raped up to 40 times a day, every day,
I CAN’T SIT STILL ANY LONGER.
“Do
you know what I want? I want justice-oceans of it.
I want fairness-rivers of
it. That’s what I want. That’s all I want.”
-Amos 5:24
