I'm realizing more and more how in America we are raised to waste and throw away those things that are so precious to others elsewhere. Be that our food and clothing, which people all over the world lack or our virginities and sexual purity, which is forcibly taken from children in so many places. We are taught and conditioned to attribute little value to the things that so many are never allowed to have or have taken from them at such young ages. We are such a weak people group…we needn't have our food or purity taken from us, we needn't be starved and enslaved by force because we will kill ourselves. We will live in indulgence and willing walk into enslaving addictions ourselves. We will self inflict that life long pain just for the taste of some superficial, immediate pleasure. It has never been a battle of flesh and blood… though in other places the enemy has to attack in that way and that battle does have to be fought first… it has always has been and always will be a battle of spiritual, unseen things. Whether it be an obese American man, a desperate girl responding to a "booty call" or a starving child somewhere, a young girl sold into the sex trade as a toddler…it's still enslavement; one is just easier to see as an injustice while the other is easier to justify.
none of it is meant to be this way. He has a better way, for all of us, no matter what way we have been caught up in entrappement.
He has the keys, beloved, to set us free. set you free. set me free.
