FREEDOM!

There was this Fairtrade and 'Stop the Traffik' awareness evening on at church yesterday, and this girl told this story that challenged me so much:

[Note: This girl is 15 and went to India at 14 years-old to work with her grandma in the red-light district to try and help some of the girls there, and interact with those who had already been rescued...]

She said that they were all just so joyful and happy everyday. And it puzzled her because she could not see anything in their lives for them to be even remotely happy about. So she asked this one girl who had been trafficked and forced into prostitution at the age of 11, why she was so joyful. And her response was, "For my freedom!"

Every day I wake up. Free from being a slave to the awful things these children have experienced for years... and what's more - COMPLETELY free from being a slave to sin and death and loneliness and insecurity... all the things that keep supposed 'free' people, bound yet unaware, every minute of every day.

And what are my first thoughts?

"Arghhh I can't believe it's day-time again. I can NOT be bothered..."

I need my outlook changing. I need to realise and never forget to be grateful for every thing.

My life. My freedom. My God.

Gal 5:1 - "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."