Hallelujah! What a Savior!

The other night as I prayed for Las Vegas and the end to sex trafficking, I wept. I cried out to the Lord as I prayed through the exploits that degrade and destroy, I pleaded with [El Roi] the God who Sees all that happens in the darkness. And as I spoke with Him through my tears, I asked Him, “You see everything; You don’t just hear of the rapes, but You see them; You don’t just hear of the beatings, You see them; You don’t just hear of the manipulations, You see them...HOW?! How can You handle seeing and feeling all that pain and terror and disgrace?!” And into my heart flowed this song:

Man of sorrows what a name
for the Son of God, who came
ruined sinners to reclaim:
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
in my place condemned He stood,
sealed my pardon with His blood:
Hallelujah, what a Savior!
Guilty, helpless, lost were we;
blameless Lamb of God was He,
sacrificed to set us free:
Hallelujah, what a Savior!

The Savior. Oh Jesus! He came, He lived, He died, He rose, He reigns for sinners. His work on the cross was enough to cover EVERYONE He sees: The one who is beaten and the one who swings the bat; the one who is gang raped and the ones who devastate her body; the one whose self-worth is broken and the one who kills her soul with their words; the one who is threatened and the one who holds the gun in her mouth. My heart weeps and marvels at such a Savior. 

I think as a culture who are very singular; we consider the Savior and we say, “Jesus died for ME. He hung on the cross for ME. He died to give ME new life,” and we stop in this singular view of a savior and leave believing He’s only as good as our view of our sin is bad. We settle for a small view of an immense God. 

But He is so much more! This Jesus, the one of whom it is spoken in John 3:16–17, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that WHOEVER believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.” THAT Jesus--His work on the cross didn’t stop with YOU or I...It covered EVERY SIN OF EVERY PERSON OF ALL OF TIME...
Paul who systematically killed Christians + 
David who killed a man to steal his wife + 
Rahab who used her body for her gain + 
the thief on the cross who hung beside Jesus + 
the men who raped and sodomized the little girl in front of Chong Kim [Movie: Eden] + 
the men who made her watch + 
the man who bought the child from her parents to traffic her + 
the parents who sold her + 
the man who jumped on the abdomen of the woman he sells to cause her to miscarry + 
the woman who lured the teen to enslave her and taught her the tricks of the trade + 
[insert participants in horrific injustice here]. 

Whoa. 
What a Savior. 
May our view be broadened, may our hearts overflow with the desire for justice, may we cling to the cross of Christ, may we weep for the lost and pray for their salvation, and may we desire that the courts of heaven be filled with both the oppressed and the oppressors who have turned to the Lord. Because justice will be served, as it says in Psalm 10, “Break the arm of the wicked and evildoes; call his wickedness to account till You find none.” For EVERY account of wickedness, justice WILL be served, in Hell or on the Cross.

Hallelujah! What a Savior!