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Left Behind: The Mark, Chapters 18 through 21
Chaim took to pacing around in the Strong Building, repeating lines over and over. He usually carried a Bible, Rayford noticed, but sometimes a commentary or his own notes.
He didn’t sound eloquent or forceful or confident to Rayford. It was as if all he was trying to accomplish was getting the basics down and having some idea what he was talking about. He also looked miserable, and Rayford wanted to counsel him again on where he stood with God, but he didn’t feel qualified to make Chaim feel better about himself. Chaim apparently didn’t see Tsion as a personal mentor but only as a teacher and tireless motivator.
It struck Rayford that they all had to endure the same doubts and fears when first they became believers. They had missed the truth, then feared they had come to God only as a last ditch effort to avoid hell. Was it valid? The Bible said they were new creatures, then old things had passed away and all had become new. Rayford had worked hard to accept for himself that God knows saw him, in essence, through His sinless Son, the Christ.
But it had been almost impossible. He was new inside, yes. From a spiritual standpoint he knew it was true. But in many ways he struggled with the same old self. And while God’s truth about him should’ve carried more weight than his finite emotions, they were loudly at the forefront of his conscience every day. Who was he to tell Chaim Rosenweig to just have faith and trust that God knew him and understood him better than Chaim himself ever could?
If there was someone who seemed healthier more quickly than most, it was Hattie.
Left Behind: The Mark, Chapters 18 through 21
Left Behind: The Mark, Chapters 18 through 21