Ostrich Christianity

Lamentations 4:1-4 NLT

How the gold has lost its luster! Even the finest gold has become dull. The sacred gemstones lie scattered in the streets! [2] See how the precious children of Jerusalem, worth their weight in fine gold, are now treated like pots of clay made by a common potter. [3] Even the jackals feed their young, but not my people Israel. They ignore their children's cries, like ostriches in the desert. [4] The parched tongues of their little ones stick to the roofs of their mouths in thirst. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.

Poverty and corruption are driving the worldwide people trafficking trade.

Driven by lack, parents are reduced to "selling" their own children into the sex trade or trading their organs.

Can you imagine the deep despair that would motivate such extreme action?

Worse still, children and young people are abducted or seduced into this dark activity and are then trapped as slaves in it

It's much more comfortable to bury our heads in the sand and ignore it, but the heart of God is broken over these unspeakable things.

I praise God for the brave men and women who are bringing such dreadful deeds into the light at great personal cost.

The movie "The Sound of Freedom" has launched the evil of the child sex trade into the public domain.

May the Lord wake us up out of our spiritual slumber and inspire some sort of response - prayer, action -maybe sponsoring a child through a Christian charity.

If we can prevent at least one little one from such dire consequences of poverty, it will be something.

The issue is global and so overwhelming - it's easier to pretend it isn't happening.

God deliver us from ostrich Christianity - we are the hands and feet of Jesus.

How can we reach out if we don't look life full in the face and start meeting needs?

Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 16:49

Are we sleep-walking into judgement?