I am confident Elijah was a human being but I’m
not so sure about “quite like us.” On the other hand he was fully dependent on
God for rain or lack thereof in the same way that those who suffer pray and the
cheerful rejoice. There may be some who think it is the prayer of the righteous that determines the outcome but I prefer to believe the “powerful and effective” nature
of the prayer has more to do with persistence of prayer in the face of circumstances
beyond our ability to control. We know that we were not meant to live forever in bodies of
flesh and blood and bones and so the healing that happens in the temporal is
not nearly as “powerful and effective” as the healing that allows one to take
life as it comes without being overcome by whatever one must endure. So Elijah was indeed just like us, even though some folks that farm in the Midwest might like
to have his ability to make it rain.
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