We do a lot of logistical work. On one project, I spent hours and hours with a huge map on the floor sectioning off parts and highlighting and re-working. It was a pretty laborious task.
I kept thinking during it how badly we were looking for these girls in shops. I thought about how much I wanted to meet them and how badly I wanted them to know the Father. We spend hours upon hours searching, praying and seeking them out. To think that it is only a miniscule fraction of how much the Father is doing the same desiring them is pretty powerful.
When I get to talk with these girls, I realize how similar we are. We are about the same age, have the same music interests, love clothes and jewelry and girly stuff. I can only appreciate how fortunate I am that I was born into a family of believers, born in to a country with freedom and protection. Without that, I could be right where they are in complete and utter darkness.
I look at my sin and see how in the Father’s eyes, these girls and I are the same. We both have had darkness in our hearts. They will tell me how grateful they are that I walked into their brothel. And I just tell them how grateful I am that God walks into the brothel of my heart every single day.
Amanda, a student at the University of Texas at Arlington, is serving with Go Now Missions in East Asia. Her last name is withheld for security reasons.
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