It’s not that hard to free people from hunger. All it takes is food – Jesus proved that when he took five loaves and fed the crowd of 5000 – and we have so much more than only five loaves in this world – we have more than enough food to feed every member of the human family.

It is so easy for loyalty and love to slide into idolatry, for us to allow nation or family to replace God as the recipient of our worship and the source of meaning and direction in our lives. And so we forget that we are called to something so much bigger…