Sower of Seeds

Johan Etsebeth posted this update the day before the Goodnight, Red Light.. event in May.  The event helped raise support for victims of sex trafficking in Mumbai.

Yesterday I couldn’t hold tears back as a friend of the ministry  told some pastors here in DFW of a little kid born with HIV that had been left in an alleyway in the red-light district without parents tugging at his pant leg as he was walking in the streets with a bible trying to bring an end to the horrors God’s daughters endure in sexual slavery… as I heard him talk of an 8 year-old girl pledging in a lullaby to her 1 year-old brother that she would take care of him by begging… a girl dying of AIDS surprised that someone believes that God even has a plan for her life, how worthless it might have seemed to her at that point…  All of these people are still alive today because someone saw them in a different light.

When we hear of Hunger and Slavery in the world, it is so easy to feel the shame that these things exist, but our belief that we are powerless makes us think we have to move on and not lose our hope… It gets more difficult as we encounter more and more of these things to just try to move on.  These problems haunt us… Our hope is the same as their hope.  It is merely hope – universal human hope that we share…

Remaining ignorant of the importance of other’s influence on our state merely buys us some time to not feel overwhelmed, but it also prolongs the suffering of those who are held firm by the consuming clutches of their circumstances.  When will it catch up with us… Why was I not born poor and hungry? Why am I outside of these things?  Am I outside of these things?

The same solution is what simultaneously mobilizes us and frees others from this stalemate… Realizing that God does not want to see us powerless when we are faced with adversity.  When we act on a need, we become an answer to a cry for help.  We are not powerless. There is universal hope for all.  It is active, it is real.. It is possible to make a difference just as certain as there is someone who cares about us all…

If we believe that it is our God’s heart to help us, we have to believe that it is our God’s heart to act through us too to help others…

I believe that this is the Kingdom that Jesus spoke of 2000 years ago.

God declared that He was our Father when he compared us to His Son… to show us that we are his children and that there are no orphans… He is our Parent.  As we were once sons and daughters, so we are destined to become fathers and mothers to others…