Excerpts from a speech given a couple years ago..
Pretty much sums up how I feel right now.

The Lord does not suggest human rights activism as an option for Christians. It is not a choice or possibility. It is a command. We have no say in the matter. The Bible outright TELLS US to speak up for the voiceless, to defend the rights of the oppressed, to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and remember those in prison as though we were in prison ourselves.

In the past ten years at least one million died of starvation alone, while their brothers and sisters in the south were well fed and lived in excess. Every day we spend not working to help these people is another day a child will have no food, a woman will live in sexual slavery, a political prisoner will be tortured.

What kind of message do we send to non-Christians if we do not act immediately and overwhelming to this tremendous crisis? What is a better witness to our non-Christian brothers and sisters? Massive and beautiful church buildings, beautifully dressed choirs and armies of elders? Or living our lives like they have a higher purpose? Squabbling with other organizations and churches and pastors about who gets to speak first, whose name gets put in bigger print? We cannot care more about ceremony than substance! If we carry on this way much longer, it’s not just the North Koreans who will suffer.

Because if we are truly Christians, nothing belongs to us. Everything is given to us by God, with the trust that we will use it to further His Kingdom and fulfill His commands. We cannot be stingy with our health, time or wealth. As Elie Wiesel said, our lives no longer belong to us alone, they belong to all those who need us desperately.

Isaiah, chapter 58.

3 ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say,
‘and you have not seen it?
Why have we humbled ourselves,
and you have not noticed?’

5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen,
only a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed
and for lying on sackcloth and ashes?
Is that what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD ?

6 “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

The mouth of the LORD has spoken.

Don’t ask the Lord how long until they are free. Don’t ask the Lord when liberty will come to North Korea. Because the Lord is waiting for you. The Bible commands us not to make promises to God that we will not keep.

Faith without deeds is dead!
-Adrian Hong