Question

Why are there some of us blessed, and little children are dying in Africa and starving to death?

Answer

God is sovereign.  I have always felt that the more non-Christian the nation is, the higher the mortally rate will be, because Christians have the highest respect for life there is.  Well, look at our nation--the more we become non-Christian, the more we become humanistic, the easier it is for us to massacre infants--by the millions.  You take a pagan country, or Africa, or India, you'll find in those countries that there is a low regard for life--a very low regard for life.  It isn't just as simple, always, as famine and so forth--it has to do with the whole regard for life.  Unless you understand that people are created in the image of God, they are nothing more than what this man was asking earlier--it's animal life.  So, I think that, that happens because it is a low regard of life.

The "flip side" of that is, that I believe God in His mercy and grace sees the reality of redemption in that for a people who, in many cases, would never otherwise be redeemed.  Those nations that are the most un-Christian have the highest [infant] mortality rate, which is to say that those "little ones" are taken safely into the arms of God, before they can come to the point in their own nation where they will be unbelievers.  So, I think that is part of the answer.  The ultimate answer is--God is God, and God has designed the world the way He has designed it; sin is running its course.  God has offered redemption to all men; evil has a place, and God for the sake of His own glory, and the sake of His own revelation of judgment and wrath against sin permits sin and its consequences, and so it is a sovereign issue.