(Nuggets from Ezekiel 14:20)
Noah was a notable hero of Faith who existed in a generation where the people scorned him and spurned the warnings he gave them about the impending doom that would soon befall them - THE FLOOD. Noah warned, but they failed to Hearken, and unfortunately, they had to pay with their lives as they all got wiped away for their stubbornness. Noah did the Lord's work regardless, and even though the flood destroyed all the adamant, he was saved and his household were also saved not because he forced them to enter the ark, but becsuse they made their individual choices.
Had Noah's wife and sons (Shem, Ham and Japheth) with their wives made a wrong choice, they would have missed entering the ark and risked destruction in the deluge.
Daniel was a eunuch, he was taken into captivity and wasn't bothered about the fact that he would never have a family of his own, no wife or children. He didn't let these unsavoury conditions affect his devotion and commitment to God.
Daniel did the Lord's work, prayed unapologetically, trained the three Hebrew boys who were also in exile with him and they stood out in their generation.
They never allowed their servitude in the Babylonian empire to make them abandon the God of their Father. Daniel was thrown into a lion's den for his refusal to pray when the king passed the decree, and God came to his rescue, HE CAME OUT UNHURT.
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refused to bow to the image of the Babylonian King and they were thrown into a fiery furnace, but the execution was aborted as the FOURTH MAN stepped into the fire and delivered them.
Job was a just man in His generation and when God boasted about him, it was personalized; God didn't boast about Job's wife or children. Job was buffeted but he did not allow the trials make him give up on God.
HEAVENLY RACE IS A PERSONAL RACE!
Your soul has an inestimable value, and that was why God sent His one and only begotten son, Jesus to come and die for humanity.
Jesus has died once and for all, it is now left for you and I to run our race and finish well. Salvation is personal and there are no proxies. No one can die for you, Jesus has done that already.
This is the reason Apostle Paul wrote to the Philippian church to WORK OUT THEIR OWN SALVATION WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING.
Your SALVATION is your RESPONSIBILITY.
Live your life with this consciousness that your ETERNAL SALVATION lies right in your hands; others have run this race and completed it successfully, you too can do this.
This is HOLINESS CHALLENGE
DAY 70 OF 365 (2026)
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