The Price for the Prostitute

Today I began my first day at Exodus Cry: the Prayer Movement to End Human Trafficking. My new co-workers genuinely exemplify a deep burden of injustice of the issue of sexual slavery in this day and time. Not only do they commit to excellence in the workplace, but also loving one another well out of the overflow of wells of revelation of the Father’s desire for them. By a simple six hour time span I had become convicted by my immense lack of compassion for those steeped in the atrocity of human trafficking and my helplessness apart from God to see a solution.

Max Lucado proposes 25 questions for Mary, Jesus’ mother, in his book, “God Came Near.” Question number sixteen reads, “What do you think He thought when He saw a prostitute offering to the highest bidder the body He made?”

My mind was thinking of this tonight as I asked the Lord to encounter me afresh with His burden over the injustice of human trafficking in this world and the perverse lust of my culture. There are said to be calculated some 20 million slaves in the world; uncalculated 200 million and eighty percent are sex slaves. Pornography, the gateway into the selling of bodies, grosses over 200 billion dollars a year. Truly, truly an epidemic is on our hands and blindness on our eyes.

I asked Him, what did You feel as You watched a prostitute sell her body to the highest bidder? Surely You had countless times, share with me how You felt. His answer: I was the one who paid the highest price for her body, no man can possibly out bid Me in My zeal and passionate desire that she may forever be near and for her heart to accept My love voluntarily.

No righteous man, no wicked man can outbid Jesus. False justice will not truly rescue a woman out of her depravity, even if an organization physically brings her out of chains only Jesus can set her free. No wicked man can possibly win the soul of a woman, prostituted or not.

That’s what it’s all about: Jesus paying the price. It’s not about what can man do in his own striving to liberate captives. There is One greater who has set captivity captive because of His anointing by the Father to give beauty for ashes and a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

It comes by the blood of the Lamb slain for the transgressors; mocking, beating, bruising, marring Him beyond recognition. It comes by the innocent Man in whom no deceit was found in His mouth, only intercession for the transgressors that they may be with Him in paradise.

No evil thought entered His mind over the ones driving steel into flesh, only prayers supplicated to His Father. The highest price paid for each prostitute to draw near to the throne of grace with confidence to find help in their times of need.

This is the answer. Jesus Christ the Deliverer of the slave. Savior to the sick. Redeemer of the sinner. Husband of the unfaithful. Judge over injustice.

No man can match or outbid the price that Jesus has laid upon every head of every prostitute mandated to flaunt herself to the lusts of the streets of Las Vegas, Mumbai, Rio de Janero or London. The beauty is that she is not found in shame before God, but accepted as a daughter with full rights to the kingdom of heaven.