Coping mechanisms like disassociation, when faced with trauma (her words!), are at work everyday. 25% of all daily internet searches are for porn. 66-90% of the women in the business were sexually abused when they were young. There are 4.2 million porn sites, which constitutes for 12% of the internet and 89% of all porn is produced and created in the United States. The majority of what is seen online was not even consented to. Porn fuels sex trafficking and sex slavery.
Would you take a stand to make this stop? Do you believe it's wrong? If you're looking, would you stop allowing and affirming a cycle that degrades women, enslaves them mentally/emotionally/fiscally, and mentally destroys the view of those who look on?
Sex trafficking, environmental waste, morality and the homeless person you're judging is what this month is about. I believe if you're living anywhere in Indiana, it's quick and easy to slip into sterilized Christianity, where you only view God inside your church building. You may evangelize to your friends once a week and pray in hopes that God will answer, but you don't truly believe He'll answer, because you've never seen something like that before.
I was challenged last night to break this sterilized box. There is a world bigger, badder and more evil than what you may have been exposed to so far as a Christian. I believe it's through such bad situations, challenges and hardships that your faith becomes not an emotion (when you feel like praising and obeying the Lord) but instead a faith that is wholly reliant on the solid foundation of who God is and who you are in light of His Son. A faith that is truly pleasing to him and results in a steadfast joy that comes when your faith is dug deep into the solid rock of Jesus and made unpenetrable.
That's what God wants for us. He doesn't want us to stay sterilized. He wants us to see His glory, take on things in the world that are a challenge to stand up against and do His will. We need to start chewing on meat and instead of drinking milk.
Let us grow up, learn what we've been avoiding and take on the responsibility to do what the Lord calls us to - standing up for what we believe, following Him and being faithful to Him.
"Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it.Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? " - 1 Corinthians 3:1-3