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Our text makes it clear that God cares about such practical matters as hunger and physical food. He wants us all to be fed.
My Mohawk Indian friends would say, "The Creator gave us our Mother the Earth. Our Mother provides enough for all of us. There is plenty for everyone."
Why, then, are some people hungry? Why is it people are still starving to death? In a series of articles written for the New York Times, Ann Crittenden says that even during the height of the world food crisis in 1974, the world was producing two pounds of grain a day -- more than 3,000 calories -- for every man, woman and child on earth! She wrote, the cause of hunger, "it is agreed is poverty and poor income distribution-- " To further dramatize the cause of hunger, she points out that less than sixty percent of the world's cultivatable land is under cultivation. (New York Times, pages one and ten, August 17, 1981.)
In other words, there is plenty of food (or land to produce it!) for everyone -- if those with much would share with those who have little. That's what the widow of Zarephath did! As little as she had, she responded to the Lord's command by generously sharing her bit of food with Elijah. Is there a clue here for middle class Christians?
-- Campbell
Our text makes it clear that God cares about such practical matters as hunger and physical food. He wants us all to be fed.
My Mohawk Indian friends would say, "The Creator gave us our Mother the Earth. Our Mother provides enough for all of us. There is plenty for everyone."
Why, then, are some people hungry? Why is it people are still starving to death? In a series of articles written for the New York Times, Ann Crittenden says that even during the height of the world food crisis in 1974, the world was producing two pounds of grain a day -- more than 3,000 calories -- for every man, woman and child on earth! She wrote, the cause of hunger, "it is agreed is poverty and poor income distribution-- " To further dramatize the cause of hunger, she points out that less than sixty percent of the world's cultivatable land is under cultivation. (New York Times, pages one and ten, August 17, 1981.)
In other words, there is plenty of food (or land to produce it!) for everyone -- if those with much would share with those who have little. That's what the widow of Zarephath did! As little as she had, she responded to the Lord's command by generously sharing her bit of food with Elijah. Is there a clue here for middle class Christians?
-- Campbell
