Monday, April 8, 2013 | By: Jake

I Couldn't Stop Looking

We headed out of the museum, and we walked towards the Old Church...

I had thought I had seen the Red Light District...but my heart was not prepared for what I was about to see.

We walked through different alleys, and the signs started appearing again...

XXX...

Sex Shop...

Gay Movies...

Porn...

But then it got worse. The signs didn't get worse. It was just that other things started appearing.

We walked down a road: the back of the Old Church on one side, on the other...

Store windows...

Just like any other store...people walked by window shopping...but this was a different type, for there weren't toys on the other side, no musical instruments, no works of art...but there was lingerie.

And it wasn't displayed on mannequins.

It was displayed on women...real women.

Most people looked the other way, focusing on the Old Church, but I couldn't resist. I wasn't drawn to their attraction, their looks...lust was not a focus of the mind.

I was drawn to the brokenness. I looked one of the women in the eye, and she motioned for me to come closer. Motioned to me, a teenager...it was so explicit, so present, so there, and I couldn't stop looking into her eyes...

I saw Christ.

This isn't something to be taken lightly, but we act like it is...we tell jokes about the Red Light District, we joke about rape culture, we joke about all of this...but this is real.

I couldn't focus on anything else I saw...I just remember those eyes...

I saw right through hers, and she saw right through mine.

My heart continually breaks over the stories of the Red Light District. The women of that district are always in my prayers. The place is broken, but don't be deceived into thinking "that place needs Christ". That place has Christ. It just needs us.

We shouldn't be questioning where God is in all of this. We should be questioning where the People of God are in all of this. We should be questioning where we are in all of this.

For more information on human trafficking, particularly the Red Light District and sex slavery, visit enditmovement.com and join the movement.

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