Poison Stew

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Oct 3, 2022 · 4m

A big bowl of stew is a comforting food when you’re hungry on a cold day. It’s a great meal to share…unless you put poisonous ingredients in it! If you like strange stories, today’s reading is one of the strangest ones in the Bible. During a famine, a hungry guy finds gourds and throws them in a pot of stew at a meeting of prophets. Unfortunately, the gourds weren’t safe to eat, and the people panickedeating this stew would kill them! But Elisha, God’s prophet and messenger, threw some flour in the pot, and just like that, the stew was safe to eat again. On the outside, this story could be…