God mentions that the outcry against Sodom is 'great.' Someone is crying out - the oppressed, the abused, those with no other recourse. Their cries have reached heaven.
I run a nonprofit focused on human trafficking, and this verse hits me differently than the standard Sodom narrative. The sin of Sodom in the prophetic books is actually about economic exploitation and the abuse of strangers - not primarily what people assume it means. The outcry comes from those being preyed upon.
That's the lens that guides our work. We're looking for the people whose cries aren't being heard by the systems that should protect them. The passage suggests God is listening for those cries - they matter, they reach Him, they matter enough to move Him to action. That's who we're trying to be.
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