What POWERFUL WORDS !!! “Oh the Glory of it all is He came here, for the rescue of us all”….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXsQbzBQ6ck This video will give you God bumps !!!
When I read God’s “LIVING” word, and then hear someone’s story of giving and sacrificial love, God shows me just how living it still is!!
I want to focus just on Jesus saying, “Go and sell all you have” (Matthew 19:21…Mark 10:21) What depths would we go in desperation for those we love? Jesus took it to the cross. The disciples died for what they believed. Sacrificial love, can we even fathom what this really means? I thought I knew, and then I hear this story that just RIPS at my heart!!
The story of our Savior Jesus Christ, should always drive us to give, love and sacrifice. Why do we get so complaisant? Let’s take our rose colored glasses off so we can see what goes on ALL OVER THE WORLD. Matthew 16: 24-25 … “whoever loses his life for Me will find it.”
Here is a brief story of a thirteen year old girl that is heartbreaking, yet inspiring. Heartbreaking because things like this are going on all over the world while I sleep in my comfortable bed at night, and go on my yearly vacations. It’s stories like this, and stories of people who have been through major devastation and tragedies in other parts of the world, who live life everyday with barely nothing, still raising their hands in worship, still believing for something better. Now that’s INSPIRING!!
We should all take a brief look outside our living conditions, and take a glimpse into others who have NOTHING!
This young thirteen year old girl, sold her most valuable possession, her virginity. She wasn’t sold into sex trade, she WILLINGLY gave of herself in desperation for a loved one. Sex trade happens all over the world, but this girls story is different, it was sacrificial and took place in Cambodia where men are willing to pay one thousand dollars or more for a night with a virgin. I am not going to go in full detail of what I read, but I can tell you that it is heartbreaking! She is the oldest of three. Her father abandoned them, her mother became seriously ill and in need of medical care. There was no money. She had a neighbor who knew of a brothel owner who would pay a lot of money for a young virgin. Long story short, she was told to sell her virginity to save her mother and siblings. She spent three years in a brothel, having sex with more than seven hundred men a year before being rescued out of this. I guess no one told her that once you’re in you can’t get out. What gets me about this true story is what she said, “I finally decided to sell my virginity because I wanted my mother to be healthy, and I wanted to help my family’s living conditions to be improved so that we could have enough food to eat.” Sweet Jesus, I don’t think half of us realize what goes on around the world, but God does and His heart breaks!!
This young girl after being rescued by the International Justice Mission, has committed her life to Jesus Christ,(now she has everything) and is being discipled at a local Baptist church. She now has a small apartment, and is raising her younger brother and sister. She is an example of the great “rescue mission of God”
If you are a Christian, what are you doing to build His Kingdom right here on earth?
When “all is lost, find Him there…after night, Dawn is there…after all falls apart, He repairs….Oh the glory of it all is He came here, for the rescue of us all, that we may live.”
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Kim
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