Nepal… The most gripping writing of my life

This Friday John, Blake and myself with drive to Myrtle Beach, SC. We are doing a benefit for a ministry in Nepal and my heart is broken. Here is the deal. Between the ages of 8 and 16 girls are enlisted into the sex trade. Many of them becoming sex slaves and spending their lives in shame and bondage. 68 % will become infected with HIV and most will die prematurely. I am going to give you a little more info then I am going to make two points that I want you to digest and think deep about. We are going to Myrtle Beach to help raise money to send a missionary to Nepal. He has been many times and works with a local pastor. The pastor and his wife have set up in their own home a place of refuge for these little girls who manage to get free. The pastor and his wife actually buy the girls out of the sex trade. Yea… they buy them out, teach them the Word of God and show them the beauty of Christ. I read a testimony the other day from this ministry that talked of an eight year old that was the sex slave of the cities police chief. He was leaving town so the minister and his wife bought the little girl so that she would be free. When the missionary visited the first time several years ago the little girl would not make eye contact and hated men with good reason. He visited recently and she is now twenty or so with her own family and has a deep love for Christ. I don’t know a better picture of redemption. The word redemption in Greek actually means to “to purchase, to pull of the slave block”. That’s what this pastor and his family along with a group of missionaries are doing. They are redeeming these little girls and giving them a reason to live. Teaching them it was not their fault and that there is restoration in the arms of a loving God. Guys, how selfish and stupid are we as Americans. I got sick to my stomach last night when I thought about what is going on around the world. Right now 600-800 thousand young women are being trafficked in the sex trade while we complain and distress about miniscule things, like the economy or the price of gas. I am not going to rant all night. I will make my two points and be done.
I want to compare and contrast America with Nepal

Nepal.

Girls wish they were chaste and could have a chance at purity…
Girls long for modesty and wear the shame of deep humiliation…
Missionaries have to buy girls out of slavery to give them a chance at purity…

America

Girls are pressured to loose their virginity…
Girls think it is attractive to expose their body and see nothing wrong with it…
TV promotes promiscuity and jokes at the concept of purity…

I hope you get the picture. God has created you to be pure and chaste. He has given us guidelines for sexual purity and He has done so for our own emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. I pray that we as Christians would take a deep look into the mirror. Guys if you claim to be a Christian and are pressuring your girlfriend into any sexual act you are far from a Christian and should zip your pants and repent to God and beg forgiveness for not respecting and valuing your sister in Christ. Girls if you are showing everything you have in an attempt to be trendy or “cute” I would that you realize you are a precious daughter of God who has deep value and purpose, either that or stop claiming Christianity. What does it say to the world when we teach and claim that being pure is the way of the cross then live lives totally contradictory. I am not writing this to condemn you. I was there. I was the guy who defamed the name of Christ with my lust and I would that no one had to walk through that. Ever. That is probably the reason I am so dogmatic. I was a rank sinner who valued nothing, especially my own body, while claiming Jesus. Five years have passed since I purposed in my heart to be pure for Christ and my future mate and it has been awesome and sometimes the most difficult thing on the planet. I said all that to say this. Don’t throw away a purity that Christ has given you and that little eight to sixteen year old in Nepal would die for. Beyond that get caught up in the sweetness of Christ and realize There will be someone to value your purity. As for those who have blown it, today, right this minute can be day one of a life pure in Christ.

I love you
Tj