When Elijah threw his mantle (cloak) over Elijah, he didn’t say anything. But in that act he set the course for Elijah’s life. The “mantle” of prophet had fallen on the young man and he would never be the same.
Walter Brueggemann asks three valuable questions relating this event to our lives. Who threw the mantle over you? What did they expect of you? And, how are you doing? And, another question worth adding is, who have you thrown this mantle of empowerment and expectation over?
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