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   Facing the Challenge   
   There were instructions to Noah - to build the Ark. Noah knew what he had to   
   do. Scripture doesn't say if God made it any clearer than that so, perhaps,   
   one of the things we could consider as a possibility is that it was Noah's   
   job, with the basic design    
   factors presented, to work it all out and do it. It was a challenge, sure, and   
   it took a century. But the thing is, he got the job done. Working with a core   
   idea from the Most High, Noah applied himself, worked steadily for a hundred   
   years, and completed    
   the task. And sometimes, regardless of how much Noah was taught from God, that   
   is all we have to work with in a task. A basic core idea we may have been   
   given, but the detail and, the hardest part, the work, is up to us.   
      
   Often, in life, the first real challenge like this we are given which actually   
   tests us is the school essay. We're given the essay title, and knowledge how   
   to research books and how to structure the essay, but then, off we go. Filling   
   in the picture is    
   not easy, and for a lot of our first efforts we produced 200 of the 500 words   
   required, and often in a very basic paraphrase. We might not have even done   
   any real original thinking or consideration, but just wanted to get the job   
   done and the work handed    
   in, and left it at that. But is that really good enough? To build that ark   
   Noah would have had to concentrate on detail. He would have had to ensure   
   there was sufficient materials, that the ark, in the end, wouldn't float and   
   that it would be strong    
   enough to go the distance of the voyage. He needed to have all the tools made   
   to do the building and, in the end, he had to do the actual hard work to not   
   only accomplish the job but, and this is the important thing, to accomplish   
   the job so that it    
   would actually work and not fail. He had to pass the test the first time. He   
   couldn't afford a fail.   
      
   Facing life's challenges is never easy, and sometimes the work ahead of us in   
   life can seem incredibly daunting. But it has to be done, and if someone   
   doesn't do my work, who will? Cheating is not a good option. With the way   
   teachers these days use    
   internet resources to check for plaigarism, your copied essay can be found out   
   pretty damn quickly. And cheating is never a good way to go because you have   
   never really learned the whole point of the exercise anyway, which will mean   
   you lack the real    
   understanding and knowledge necessary later on in life when that input   
   required from yourself needs to be applied. Facing the challenge is never   
   about a half-hearted effort, or about cutting corners to do a second rate job.   
   A second rate ark would have    
   sunk to the ocean floor most likely. No, you can't cheat on problems, and they   
   have to be done properly and to the standards required for a pass.   
   Fortunately, a school essay often has the possibility of resits and revisions   
   to fix them up, but do you    
   really think that in your working life your boss will always be so forgiving?   
   Do you think he or she will accept fail after fail and cut corners and a   
   half-hearted approach. Not usually. Facing the challenge is also often about   
   using that mind of    
   yourselves and actually getting those thought cogs to tick over and actually   
   get stuck into what you know in your heart you really have to and should be   
   doing. It's not easy. Nobody ever said it would be. But, if you really want a   
   successful life, if    
   that is something of a dream you have in your heart, you can't cheat. You   
   can't cut corners. You can't put in a half-hearted effort. You have to face up   
   to it, honestly, do the required research, use your mind and think through the   
   required ingredients    
   for the core solution to the problem at hand - yes, you will have to apply   
   your mind and heart to this - and then, the hard part, going the hard   
   distance, the hard yards, and steadily working on getting the thing done. And,   
   like Noah faced himself, often    
   the challenges of life have to be passed first time around. And that is never   
   an easy thing to get used to is it? Facing the challenge has to be done   
   honestly and with determination and, perhaps most of all, hard work. A   
   successful Noahide in life doesn'   
   t really have any other option than that.   
      
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