“The United States has just 5 percent of the world’s population but consumes 30 percent of the world’s resources.”

A thought by Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson (2011-07-19) in their book, Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You´ve Only Heard About (Kindle Locations 525-526). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Some wonder how a loving God could allow so much starvation in the world. I mean, there are so many people who live with no hope of enough food to sustain them so they go to bed hungry every night. If God loves them how can that be? That is a good question.

The truth is we don’t have a shortage problem but a sharing problem. Do you realize that we produce enough food every year to feed the world but some eat more than they need thus taking away from some who don’t have enough? God has provided and we are to be His instruments of supplying but we have kept it and gotten fat off of it.

I was born just after the Great Depression but I lived through some of the aftermath of that very difficult time in our history. One of the problems that came out of that time was a great fear that many people had to not ever go through it again. Some of that has been very good but some of that feeling has caused us to be people who have so much more than we need. Fear can turn into greed.

Have you seen the size of plates that we used to eat off of back in the 50’s and 60’s and the size today? It is ridiculous. Some of the portions that we get at restaurants are also ridiculous and the fact that some restaurants charge a sharing charge. When I find that out I never go back. That is ridiculous. The truth is the amount we eat is both killing us and killing people around the world. Somehow we’ve got to get our act together.

What do you think?

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