There was a famine in Gilgal when Elisha told his servant to put on a big pot of stew. One of the men went out for herbs and came back with a lapful of wild gourds. He cut them up and dropped them into the pot. When the men began to eat, they cried out that there was death in the pot. Sometimes we find out what we’ve added to a situation only after somebody else has had a taste of it. Elisha asked for flour, threw it into the same pot, and told them to serve the stew again. The pot they couldn’t eat from became the pot that fed them. When something we meant to make better turns out worse, we can tell God plainly what we put into it and ask Him to help us put it right.
“And there was no harm in the pot.” —2 Kings 4:41
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