Who Will Save The Children?

October 29th - November 5th, 2008 is Pornography Awareness Week.

If you do not already know that pornography is an epidemic of global proportions with its tentacles reaching far and deep into the church, I invite you to drop by Blazing Grace to read the cold hard facts. Check out a new resource for your church, a DVD, Somebody's Daughter.

Visit Peggy's blog to find out more info. on this DVD.

Today, though, I want to focus on child pornography.

Some time ago, I posted on the child sex slavery in Cambodia after seeing the short film, Field of Mulan. See here. I want to remind you again of the stench of child pornography and invite you to ask God how you can help.

One of the first things you can do is to inform yourself by seeing what is already being done by organizations such as International Justice Mission (Lanah's story), Ratanak Foundation, Transitions Global.

Check Lisa's blog to see how God has called her and what he has taught her over the past several years as she has volunteered a couple of weeks per year in Cambodia. See the valuable links on her sidebar.

Read your Bible, and see how God feels about those who rob children of their innocence.

Ask God, what then can I do?

Sing with Randy Stonehill:

Who Will Save The Children

(click on title to download mp3 song)

Cry for all the innocent ones

born into a world that's lost its heart

For those who never learn to dream

because their hope is crushed before they can start

And we shake our fists at the air and say,

"If God is love,how can this be fair?"

But we are His hands, We are His voice

We are the ones who must make the choice

And if it isn't now,tell me when?

If it isn't you, then tell me who will save the children?

Who will save the children?

We count our blessings one by one

yet we have forgotten how to give

It seems that we don't want to face

all the hungry and homeless who struggle to live

But heaven is watching tonight

tugging at our hearts to do what's right

And we are His hands, We are His voice

We are the ones who must make the choice

And if it isn't you,

then tell me who will save the children?

Who will save the children?

As we observe them through our T.V. screens

they seem so distant and unreal

But they bleed like we bleed

And they feel what we feel

Oh, save the children

Save the children

Save the children

Now we decide that nothing can change

and throw up our hands in numb despair

And we lost a piece of our souls

by teaching ourselves just how not to care

But Christ would have gone to the cross

just to save one child from being lost

And we are His hands,We are His voice

We are the ones who must make the choice

And it must be now

There's no time to waste

It must be you

No one can take your place

Can't you see that only we

Can save the children

Save the children

Save the children

Please, save the children

Written By Randy Stonehill©

Copyright 1984 by Stonehillian Music & Word Music

(a division of Word, Inc.)(ASCAP)


Father,
I pray for Your little ones all around the world on whom the grossest of injustices are being perpetrated. May You surround them with the unseen wings of angels. Expose the perpetrators to those seeking justice for those who have no voice. Deliver these children and open hearts and doors to safe places for healing, rehabilitation and reintegration. Only You can reach into the deep recesses of their spirits and pour Your healing love. Do it, God. I pray for those trapped in the depravity of sin that allows them to treat Your little ones so callously. May Your Spirit open their eyes, convict them of their sin and bring them to repentance. Father, I pray for all those who are working to combat child pornography who have heard Your voice calling them to Yourself and are now so weary of the uphill climb that has ensued. Not only are their limbs at the breaking point, they find themselves battling weapons hurled at them. Please, God, grant them a spacious place, a holy moment, an oasis, to know Your healing love, to run for a while, laugh and enjoy the life that You gave them. Thank You, Lord. In Jesus' Name, Amen