The One Year Bible - Day 176

Today Elisha warns the woman from Shunem to go and live in a foreign country because of a famine. The problem with famines is that there is much suffering and people die so it is natural that we would avoid famines. It was because of this woman's closeness to Elisha and therefore God that allowed her to know about and avoid the coming famine. I wonder how many of our famines we could have avoided if we had listened to God in the first place?