Blur the lines of how another human being should be treated and you will find yourself losing what makes you human…
I commented in a group of people that a part of the fight against human trafficking goes hand in hand with the direction that major industry has gone in how it exploits people. In reply, someone said, “There is a fine line between exploitation and understanding that those are jobs being provided for those individuals and they otherwise would not have a job”. Well I guess that lets everyone off the hook that wants to address things such as human trafficking and worker’s exploitation. We can just go to the grocery store, pick our package of beef that someone chopped up for us in a dirty, dangerous and unhealthy environment where they get paid terribly and are seen as disposable parts of a piece of machinery that has to be kept up in order to bring in the largest profit for the company and the cheapest price for the consumer(all of us). Then we can go home cook the beef, sit down with our family and pray, thanking God that he provides for us and at such a great price! The provision we are so thankful for can be at the cost of someone else, but since they have a job they should be thankful. We can continue to make God look like a hypocrite when our selfish lifestyle causes suffering to increase at rapid rates. But, thank God for lower prices at Kroger and Thank God the people providing our food are willing to be treated the way that animals should be treated when they’re raised on a farm. I can’t call that God’s provision. Cultivate soil, plant crops and watch the beautiful process of nature God created and I will call it God’s provision, but the exploitation of human beings in order to fulfill my need for luxury and comfort, I call that losing our souls. God’s provision would be seeing a girl prevented from being lured into a trap that leads to being forced to work in a brothel or on a street corner. What if God’s provision is something we have to allow through a willingness to sacrifice everything for someone else to have a chance to feel alive?
