the world's children
Lately I've really been hit hard about the horrible conditions children are living in all over the world. Maybe it's because i'm a dad now, i dunno.
Just today I came across another incidence of this. Maybe you've never heard that in several countries children are used a soldiers, often they're pre-teens or teenagers, sometimes they are as young as 7. They are exploited physically, emotionally, and sometimes even sexually. Drugs are given to them to make them dependent and vulnerable. It's very tragic, but i just found out that some of these countries who practice this atrocity receive military support from the US government.
An organization called World Vision has a website http://www.seekjustice.org/ where you can help take legislative action against this practice. Of course legislation is tricky stuff, so go over there and take a look at all the ins and outs (i'm sure there is some junk attached to the legislation) and respond if you feel led.
But I keep wondering if we shouldn't be doing more to help. I don't know what that is, but i know it at LEAST starts with praying for kids of the world. Peace.
posted by Dion @ 7/25/2007 03:54:00 PM
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You're right...the more you know the more painful and depressing it gets. I agonize every time I see this stuff about what we should be doing as Christians.
One interesting thought - Maybe it's not as impossible as we think to get involved sooner than later in a hands on way. It's not as though we have to come up with our own means of making a difference.
God is bringing people from all those countries to our own neighborhoods. We seem to have one of the biggest international mission fields right at our doorstep. Might God be calling us to make a difference in the minds of those who go back to those countries, perhaps to change the thinking that makes such abuse seem ok?
Also, some of our church's mission partners in those countries are working on the very problems we hear about too, glorifying God's name in the process. We have the opportunity to pray for and materially support them, and even go to help in the work.
Let's also remember that an even bigger tragedy is all the children who might suffer eternally because they don't know Jesus. As we pray for the children, let's also pray for God to work in us and in our churches to have a passion that leads us to urgently work together to make a difference!
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