Who Shall Separate Us From The Love Of God? (Part IV - hunger)

By Odon Bulamba (summary only)

Romans 8:35, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

When you are hungry do you praise God? Sometimes when you fast standing up is a problem and everything around you makes you angry. This should never separate you from God. Through this fast and suffering we would see God’s love, but when Christians today go hungry they start complaining. As Christians we must know what kind of hunger we have and to make sure that it doesn’t break our relationship with God. If you have a hunger for the Word of God then praise Him, if you are hungry for prayer then praise God, if you feel in yourself that you want to serve God then praise the Lord, but if you are hungry for material things - woe to you! You might steal; have envy or hatred and when this happens God’s love may be far from you.

There was a lady in the Bible who had nothing except a bit of oil. A servant of God came to her during this famine and asked her to give him what little she had. Even though she had children she gave what little she had and was blessed. It means that if we are going through material or spiritual hunger we must share it with others, and the more you give the more you receive, the more you sow the more you reap. Will poverty separate you from God’s love? Are we really poor? Are there poor people in New Zealand? I’ve never seen anybody who is poor. It is written in some books that there are no poor people in New Zealand because of income support. Everybody has a roof over their heads, food and transportation, but if you go further on to Asia you will find poor people.

There is however spiritual poverty because most New Zealanders know there is a God. They have learnt about Jesus and that there is an end to this life, but go elsewhere in the world and God’s existence is not known. Some people are poor materially and spiritually, they try to find riches but can’t find it, so why do we keep on complaining saying that God has forgotten about us? Some people can work 7 days a week 24 hours a day but don’t have 10 minutes to glorify God, and they still say we are poor.

It is true that as human beings we are never satisfied. The Bible says that one day we will be satisfied in heaven, but you will never find satisfaction on this earth, only in Jesus Christ. Blessed are those who live in the Lord on earth because their blessing in heaven is great. Woe to those people who say they are Christians but waste their time looking for material riches, to the point where they forget about God’s love. Would it be possible to live without your wife for 2 months Steve? There are many Christians who can allow 5 months to past without reading their Bible or praying to God, and it is normal for them. Because God loves us He finds it hard when He is forgotten. God is always there to give us a solution.

SUMMARY
Don't let spiritual or physical hunger separate you from God

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