Tuesday, November 9, 2010

What would happen?

I was challenged recently to think on a different waive length than most people these days and it blew me away yesterday. I have been praying that God would prepare me for what is ahead and that I would be ready emotionally and spiritually for this journey. I have been reading articles and statistics on human trafficking and it makes me weak at the knees when these numbers showed their colors. To show you what I mean....this industry generates between 10 and 12 billion dollars a year. Every minute two children are being prepared for sexual exploitation. There are between 18,000 and 20,000 people trafficked INTO the United States annually. And this one hurts down to the core.....nearly two million children are in the commercial sex trade. Two million children....this is disgusting and shameful on us who just want to live a cookie cutter life. Well in reading all these numbers, I felt almost defeated at the forefront without hope until I had a discussion with someone a care deeply about. He said what will change these statistics..what will prevent that number from continuing to grow....and I responded, which I feel very strongly about, and that is Education.  I continued to say, "If I could just save one." He stopped me in my words and said, "Why just save one?" And I said because one is better than none. He then said something so full of truth and something that my mind had not thought of. He said, "Think of all the ones that are left if you only save one....look at the God we serve...Why do you dream so small?" Dream as if He is God...dream as if He can." At that moment I was faced with a new truth and something that had always been there, but I had never seen. Why go to save one..go as if the God of the Universe is on your side. Don't dream so small, because we serve a Big God. What would happen if Christians today, dreamed in this way? What would happen to those statistics if people dreamed big enough to save the two million instead of the one? What would happen? God is great enough for all those things and more......we as a people need to step up and stop worrying about the newest and latest video game because the world is dying on our watch. Dream as if the Living God is on our side and dare to ask this question, "What would happen?"

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