Human trafficking happens all over the world, including throughout North America. The yokes and chains borne by victims of human trafficking are almost impossibly painful for us to imagine, and yet God calls us not only to imagine, but to be part of breaking those yokes of oppression and setting the captives free.

Scripture abounds with references and directives about feeding the hungry; this passage in Isaiah 58 is just one of many. His heart for the hungry is evident throughout his Word. We even step back from hunger to first understand the essential and primal connection between food and being human and Scripture's focus on this theme. From the abundant food in the Garden of Eden to the feasting imagery of Isaiah 25 that describes heaven, meals are essential. Part of God's reshaping his people towards his vision of a new society, after slavery and in the wilderness and before the promised land, involved feeding them manna daily. Food matters to God.