As an immature Christian my relationship with Christ was not deep enough to read past the first few chapters. Song of Solomon and other sexual parts of the Bible made me blush.now that I am in love with my Savior and secure in His love alone. I understand God's great sacrifice for us and recognize the many inferences Rivers makes in Redeeming Love. The violence of the cross made visual by recent movies, causes me to realize the depth of pain and sacrifice Jesus gave to redeem us.
The prologue introduces the early childhood of a beautiful young child, Sarah, born to the well kept mistress of Alex Stafford, a rich married man who scorned the child and demanded she be sent away. The sale of the innocent child when she was the tender age of eight to Duke for his personal use was horrifying to me. He was the personification of Satan himself. I had to put the book aside and read another book until I was able to receive the lessons Francine Rivers intended behind each purposeful action of hero, Micheal Hosea.
Taking the storyline from the Book of Hosea in the Old Testament, Rivers had created a masterpiece which is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago. Even more so with the worldwide focus on the increase of Human Trafficking as a major business, especially now seen so frequently in the United States. It is time for all women to read Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. If you read it twenty years ago, it merits reading again. For every woman who has been abused or involved in sex for hire needs to find self worth through Christ. It is time for women everywhere to open their eyes to the continuing trafficking of our most precious commodity in the US, our children.
