World Hunger and Us  I would like to talk about hunger. It may
be that God is allowing physical hunger to ravage our globe in
order to awaken his church to the worldwide (and local) ravages
of spiritual starvation. Our hearts break more quickly when we
see a skin-draped skeleton in its mother's arms than when we
hear a missionary say: millions have never heard the gospel and
are bound for hell in the wickedness of their worldliness or
idolatry. Of course our heads tell us that it is much worse to
be happy in this life and in torment for eternity than to be
miserable only in this life. But visible earthly misery reaches
our hearts more directly. Perhaps God is touching us this way in
order that we might feel the horror of spiritual starvation when
our heads declare: Do you weep over the suffering of these
bodies now?—How much more, then, should you weep over the
suffering of soul and body in eternity!  Hunger in the World
Today  So I want to talk about hunger in our world, then relate
it to biblical teaching,