I close my eyes, and see hands reaching out from the darkness, waiting to be held, waiting to be rescued. I close my eyes, and see eyes looking out to me from the darkness, eyes filled with hope that someone from the light will grab hold of their filthy pair of hands and pull them out from captivity. I close my eyes, and hear the cries and screams of a million innocent souls in anguish, continually asking the world why. I close my eyes, and see cages filled with an army of living corpses, breathing in despair. Some are young, some are old; some are female, some are male. All are beautiful; all are precious. All are waiting for salvation. In the height of the modern-day slave and sex trade which is fuelled by the extremes of Western egocentrism, when every one turns a forgetting eye away, I hear a voice asking day and night, night and day. "Who will go for Me," says the voice of the One who created every one of these souls in chains. "Who will go for Me?"
And so I wrote a song...
Wonderful Love
Take me by the hand and we will go
To the darkest place, to the lowest place
Take me by the hand and we will go
To the hurting ones, to the lowly ones
There is a love that never fails
It is the love of the Son of Man
His perfect love is always near
He wipes our tears, He calms our fears
What a wonderful love You gave
Teach me to love like You
What a wonderful Savior King
Teach me to give like You
And I will wrap my arms around the lonely
Clothe the naked, feed the hungry
Love the ones whose never been loved before
We'll show the world that He's alive
In the darkest place we'll lift Him high
And every eye will see Your light shine
