Quotes about Challenge

“Son of man, hasn’t the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ‘What are you doing?’

I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.

Surely testing will come! And what if even the scepter, which the sword despises, does not continue?’ declares the Lord GOD.

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.

When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, and they could not interpret it for me.

So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.

Now the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this inscription and interpret it for me, but they could not give its interpretation.

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.

What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”