You know the biblical story of Moses needing to keep his arms up in order to help the Israelites keep winning a battle?
Well, Moses’ arms got tired.
So his brother Aaron and another guy named Hur held them up so that the Israelites would keep winning.
Flash forward 3300 years to today.
John Paul II has a horrible, degenerative disease.
Yet he is a pillar of the Church.
Question: How does he do it alone?
Answer: He doesn’t.
He has a couple of Aarons and Hurs holding up his arms (figuratively) to help him.
SANDRO MAGISTER HAS THE STORY.
Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."
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Apt analogy.