By Funom Makama
Many newspapers are full of sad stories about prostitution. The lure of pleasure, fine clothes, vehicles, eating in fine restaurants, attracts many women to the big cities. A surprisingly large number are willing to "earn" extra money by some form of prostitution, even "respectable" wives and mothers. Governments do not know what to do about the problem of ever-bigger "red light" areas.
Some totalitarian governments have succeeded in eliminating almost all visible prostitution. Many writes say that economic necessity alone is what forces women to sell their bodies. Correct the economic problems, they say, and prostitution will vanish. The same thing can be said of crime and theft. If economics were such that everybody had all that he wanted of material things, theft would stop, they say. The theory sounds good. The problem is: how can one make sure that no disasters beyond our control will create new economic necessities? Perhaps a famine will come someday. Must economic necessity be considered sufficient excuse, in the long run, for every woman to put a "for sale" sign on herself? Is the hunger for bread (or the hunger for other things) so important that we must erase from our souls the image of God? Is there no spiritual value worth dying for? The world is a vast market where Satan is selling things like pleasure, dresses, cars, houses, etc and the currency in exchange is what the Bible calls "souls of men" and women (Revelation 18:13).
If there is nothing worth dying for and everything is "for sale", if the price is high enough, then we can be sure Satan will be clever enough to manoeuvre us into some tight spot where we think that time has come; then he will buy us out. If any woman is secretly willing to sell herself providing she gets enough money, she can be sure that Satan will take charge of her sooner or later. The fault, will be her own lack of faith, and she can be sure that Satan will have no mercy whatsoever. When she renounces her loyalty to Christ, Satan takes that as the invitation to move in. What she sells is not sex, but her soul!
The Bible teaches clearly that economic necessity is not an excuse for sin. Shedrach, Meshach, and Abednego chose to be thrown into the fiery furnace rather than bow down to the king's golden image in Babylon (Daniel 3). Daniel himself chose to be thrown into the Lions' den rather than dishonor God (Daniel 5). If any woman who has felt herself driven to become a prostitute, let her get a Bible, and look up the passages cited here. Let her kneel alone in prayer and claim the savior's promise, "Him that comes to me, I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37). The first thing she has to do is to choose to believe that promise. As soon as she believes herself to be a child of God redeemed by the blood of His son, that He died for her as if she were the only sinner in the world, she will begin to find the strength to declare her liberty in Christ. All the devils in hell cannot hold her in prostitution when she says from the depths of her heart, "I will walk at liberty; for I seek thy precepts" (Psalm 119:45).
And let us remember that prostitution is a two-way street. It could not exist if there were not men who actually create the social plague. Men and women are both alike guilty of sin. It is a highly complex modern form of slavery. In fact, many slaves in olden times were far better off than most hungry prostitutes in our modern cities. Many girls who are seduced into pre-marital sex and get pregnant find themselves sent away from school and family. Frequently they do not know how to earn a living for themselves, and get drawn into the undertow of prostitution. They excuse themselves by saying, "This is the only Job I can get!" Often such a girl's life is ruined. While it is her fault to let herself be seduced. it is also the fault of the boy who had sex with her. The girl "pays" the price of her mistake now in this life; often the boy doesn't get his "bill" until the Judgment day.
How can a prostitute who chooses to believe in Christ earn a living if she stops her lifestyle of prostitution?
God will test her faith, as must be true of all His Children; but He will not forsake her if she truly trusts Him. Millions of people can testify that this is true. A widow with a little boy told the Prophet Elijah:
By the living Lord your God, I swear that I don't have any bread. All I have is a handful of flour in a bowl and a bit of olive oil in a jar. I came here to gather some firewood to take back home and prepare what little I have for my son and me. That will be our last meal, and then we will starve to death.
The Prophet Elijah encouraged her to believe in the Lord God of Israel as a loving heavenly Father who would not forsake her:
For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says; "The bowl will not run out of flour or the jar run out of oil before the day that I, the Lord send rain (1 Kings 17:12-14).
The Lord kept His promise to that believing woman! And He will keep His promise to any needy woman who exercises that same faith today. Further more, we can confirm this in the story of Rahab the prostitute who helped the Israelite spies enter the land of Jericho and as well get some information. This story can be found in Joshua 2. But specifically, we can concentrate on verses 8-14. Rahab went back up to her roof. The spies were still awake, so she told them; I know that the Lord has given Israel this land. Everyone shakes with fear because of you. We heard how the Lord dried up the Red Sea so you could leave Egypt. And we heard how you destroyed Sihon and Og, those two Amorite Kings east of the Jordan River. We know that the Lord your God rules heaven and earth, and we've lost our courage and our will to fight. Please promise me in the Lord's name that you will be as kind to my family as I have been to you. Do something to show that you won't let your people kill my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and their families. "Rahab", the spies answered, "if you keep quiet about what we are doing, we promise to be kind to you when the Lord gives us this land. We pray that the Lord will kill us if we don't keep our promise!"
Even as a prostitute, this time of her Life was a turning point for her. Just this little exhibition of faith In God made her story one of the finest in the Bible and it is also written in Hebrews 11:31 "Rahab had been a prostitute, but she had faith and welcomed the spies. So she wasn't killed with the people who disobeyed.
An usual ally to be used by God may be what you may think right now. But one thing is for sure, if you are for Him and not against Him, He will be for you and stand for you too. All you need do is to come to Him because He has already made the first step of sending His son to die for your sins. God was not pleased with prostitution in biblical times any more than He is now. So why did the spies stop at the house of Rahab, a known prostitute? Since the spies were seeking information, they may have felt it was a safe place to gather facts without being questioned in return. Perhaps the nature of Rahab's business made her home the only place where strangers could stay without attracting attention. Whatever the reason, the Lord knew Rahab's heart was open to Him, and he used her to help the Israelites win the Victory over Jericho. Rahab's story shows that God will help us when we want to start doing right. No matter how you have sinned in the past, God can help you if you surrender to Him.
This article cannot solve the political, economic, and social aspects of the prostitution problem; but it can bring individuals to the savior of both men and women caught in this trap of commercial immorality. And His gospel is the only sure and permanent medicine to cure this ugly disease.
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