This is Elika’s last chance to make her decision. Will she believe in
God and demonstrate that belief by entering the ark so God can save her? Or
will she choose death?
Deciding to live seems like a no-brainer, doesn’t it? In the same way,
choosing Jesus and life seems like a no-brainer to me, but do you know someone
who is refusing his help? What are you choosing?
Chapter 186
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Jeannie St. John Taylor
The camel side-stepped the crevice.
She urged the beast forward with a burst of new courage born of the need to
embrace her daughter one last time erasing every other thought and feeling.
She clung to the camel’s neck, her
pulse bouncing in her throat. As soon as the quake passed, she slipped
trembling from his back and led him on foot the final distance to the ark.
A wide ramp at the top of a
man-made hill led to a broad open doorway in the ark’s side. She cautiously
ascended the rise, then stopped at the base of the ramp, unable to move
forward.
Imagined terrors held her back. The
dark doorway loomed as a gaping mouth poised to swallow her alive. The dragons
Dagaar had spoken of lurked just out of sight, waiting for hapless intruders.
She shook away the irrational
thoughts, but still couldn’t make herself place one foot in front of the other.
She gripped the camel’s rope and stared while the truth about the One True God
revealed itself.
She had determined years ago to
stay by Ishan’s side and serve his gods. No matter what he’d done. No matter
what they were. And now something hard inside her didn’t want to change. Some
illogical thing she could no longer control commanded her to continue on the
path she’d always trod. She would return to the city and stay by her husband’s
side no matter the consequences. She would persist in worshipping her husband’s
gods. She could not change, could not relent. Or was it would not relent?
Nothing made sense. She knew that. Her heart had formed into an inflexible ball
that refused to budge.
It didn’t matter.
She was incapable of stepping inside
that holy place. The Presence of the Holy God, Noah’s One True God was too
fearsome. Entering the ark would be like stepping into the center of a
consuming fire and she couldn’t – wouldn’t – do that. She would protect herself
at all cost.
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About Jeannie St. John Taylor
Jeannie St. John Taylor, best selling author and two-time Gold Medallion finalist, is the author of five non-fiction books as well as fifteen books for children. She writes and illustrates in the office-studio her husband built on their beef farm ten minutes from the skyscrapers in downtown Portland, Oregon. She and Ray have three grown children. Her books include: Culture-proof Kids, Building Character in Your Children, AMG Publishers, Am I Praying, Kregel and How to Be a Praying Mom, Hendrickson Publishers
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