Tragedy of famine.

The Associated Press recently announced, “Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa’s famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet… drought has turned into famine because little aid can reach militant-controlled south-central Somalia, forcing tens of thousands of Somalis who have exhausted all the region’s food to walk to camps in Kenya, Ethiopia and the Somali capital of Mogadishu… More than 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone, according to U.S. estimates.  The U.N. says 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, suggesting the death toll of small children will rise” (Associated Press, August, 9, 2011).

This humanitarian tragedy is occurring while the affluent western world worries about losing money in the stock market.

However, there is a God who cares, and He instructed the prophet Ezekiel to write concerning the people of Jerusalem,  “put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it” (Ezekiel 9:4)—God notices those who are saddened by atrocities they see around the globe!  He is not pleased with people who squabble and “feed themselves,” while other human beings suffer.  Jesus Christ also prophesied that one of the signs of the end of the age would be famines in various places that would kill many people (Matthew 24:7, Revelation 6:5-8).  

This is why Jesus Christ is going to return and establish the Kingdom of God to bring peace and justice to the earth (Isaiah 9:6-7).