Wednesday is for One Year: Ezekiel 16:49-50

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

These are statistics from sites on hunger in our world and age. I read somewhere else 16,000 children will die each day because of causes related to lack of food. My wife and I both were taken back by these two verses from Ezekiel. Now, one could misuse these verses and turn everything into a social gospel, but this is to neglect the fact that God said their guilt was also that they were haughty and an abomination before him. However, this does not relieve us as Christians and/or humans of the responsibility we have to see everything we have as a gift from God and to be used for his glory. I spoke several weeks ago on the story of the rich young ruler and pointed out that fact most of us in America are rich, even though we do not consider ourselves rich. Do we not have a excess of food and a life of ease? Which one of us will worry about whether or not we will be able to give our children food tonight? I don’t have all the answers on this subject, but we need to find avenues to bring relief and the love of Christ to a starving and dying world.