You Got A Friend in Me – Day 2: Pass the Cloak

Yesterday we saw that God keeps His work going. Today we see how He does it: through people who multiply themselves.

Scripture of the Day

"Elisha then picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. He took the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and struck the water with it. 'Where now is the Lord, the God of Elijah?' he asked. When he struck the water, it divided to the right and to the left, and he crossed over."

2 Kings 2:13-14 (NIV)

Elijah's cloak had been used to part the Jordan once before. Now Elisha picks it up, and the same God does the same kind of work through a new person. Elijah did not take his ministry with him. He poured it into someone else, and that is how God continued His work.

Multiplying yourself is not about making copies of you. It is about investing in someone so that God's work carries on after your part is done. Think about who handed something to you, and who might be waiting for you to hand something to them.

Reflection Question

Who has passed something valuable to you? And who is God inviting you to pour into so that what you have learned does not end with you?

Prayer

Father, thank You for the people who invested in me. Help me to do the same for someone else. Give me a heart that wants Your work to outlast me. Amen.

In His grace,

The Brook Miami