Does God care about the price of food? Of course he does. The Bible has many references to God's concern about people's ability to feed themselves.
Some of the more famous examples are Joseph ending up in charge of Egypt's grain supply, so provision could be made for the surrounding area in time of famine (Genesis 37-42).
Or of Jesus's miracles of feeding thousands of people, as they had n
o food and were in danger of fainting of hunger when travelling (Mark 8).
Great – God cares – but there is a warning in his provision as well. In John's account of the feeding of the 5,000, he comments that many then followed Jesus so they could get free food. In other words, they were lazy and/or greedy.
Two stories in the Bible show both how God cares, but also places much of the responsibility on us. In the account of creation, God provides land that can produce good food, but Adam is told to take care of it and make it do so (Genesis 2).
In the story of Joseph, God warns of a coming problem, but it is down to the Egyptians, led by Joseph, to carefully manage their resources so they can cope.
The prophet Amos has even sharper words in chapter 5, criticising the rich for taking grain from the poor. Mercifully, I don't think we have sunk to repeating that crime, but our use of food and particularly the staples of rice, grain and sweetcorn in the West might come rather uncomfortably close.
We might not be able to influence American biofuel policy much, but we can be responsible in what we eat and buy. Let us rejoice that God cares about whether there is enough food in the world to eat. Let us also take our responsibility in eating it seriously, for it is part of our worship of God.
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