2 Kings 4:41

Bring meal. Whether the meal was a natural antidote for the poisonous herbs is not revealed. It may have had the same significance as had the salt that was thrown into the defiled waters of Jericho (ch. 2:20-22). The meal was wholesome, a source of life and health to those who partook of it. In the hand of the prophet it became a symbol of life which counteracted the evil effects of the seeds of death. Here is a spiritual lesson. The gospel of Christ is the bread of life to those under the condemnation of death. No matter how long or how much the sinner has partaken of the evil fruit of death, there is power in the gospel to heal and restore. All the evil that sin has wrought the Holy Spirit has power to undo. God has the antidote to every form of evil. Christ is the source of life eternal for every man who has the will to live (John 6:27, 33, 35).