Kids Corner
Elisha Helps Make the Food Good
{2 Kings 4:38-41}
In the town of Gilgal Elisha could
see dry fields. There had not been rain for a long time.
The crops did not grow. The people were hungry.
Elisha was in Gilgal to meet with a
group of men who were learning to be special helpers for God.
The men were hungry.
"Make a pot of hot stew on for
these men," said Elisha to a servant.
The servant had to have something
to use to make the stew, so he went to a nearby field. He
looked and looked for any vegetables that could be eaten. He
found some good-tasting herbs. Then he saw a wild vine with
large plants called "gourds" on it. The man decided the
gourds would be good in the stew. He gathered as many as he
could carry and hurried back.
The servant put a big pot of water
on the fire to heat. He crumbled up the herbs he had found
and placed them in the pot. He cut up the gourds and threw
them in the pot too. As the herbs and gourds started
cooking, the stew started cooking, the stew smelled good to the
hungry men.
"It's ready," called the servant as
he dished up a bowl of hot stew. "Oh, yuck!" cried one
of the men. "Something is wrong with this stew. It
tastes awful!"
"This stew will make us sick!
We will die!" called out another man. The men stopped eating
the stew.
Elisha knew the men needed the
food. "Bring me some flour," he said to the servant.
Elisha sprinkled some of the flour
into the stew and stirred it around.
"Now serve the stew to the men," he
said.
Carefully the men put the stew into
their mouths. "MMmmmm," they said. "The stew is good."
God helped Elisha do a good work so
the men would have food to eat.
Bible
Verse To Learn
"Put them in mind to be
subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be
ready to every good work,.......
{Titus 3:1}