Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Upon reading articles about Human Trafficking, someone shared a story Oprah did a few years ago about Lake Volta. When reading it, I started to cry... The story itself is heartbreaking and informative but that wasn’t what really bothered me. What bothered me was that someone with as much influence and fame as Oprah could not make a significant dent in ending child slavery.
Oprah did this story in 2007-- five years ago and child slavery on Lake Volta is still going on, in fact all the statistics are the same. Not necessarily an encouragement for us. Ghana Rock has way less influence, fame, connections, and funding than her. Can we make even difference? I was forgetting one major difference though. What's different about Oprah and Ghana Rock is we have one super power much stronger than anything Oprah does.
His name is Jesus.
My encouragement? This would all be lame, worthless, and a complete waste of time if we are trying to bring awareness by ourselves... but we're not. Jesus is right here, constantly providing for us. We have the unity of the body of Christ praying for us. We are a force, and we are a strong one at that.
(to read the whole article Oprah did, click here)
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