This is the period in the school calendar year where students (and parents) are stressed out as the exams are round the corner. It is even extra stressful if you are taking the major exams such as PSLE, O & A Levels. We will pray for you. Do give of your best and continue to Trust in God.
Sometimes, as believers, we are caught up with exams and results that we believe in the world’s sales pitch that “Getting Good Grades is the way to a Bright Future”. So it was apt that “Exams, Exams, Exam” was the theme for the Children Outing on Sep 8th. The teachers had an opportunity to share with the children about the most important Exam of Life.
It is a good reminder to all of us that there is a final exam for all of us at the end of our earthly journey. We will meet God and there is a question that we will be asked: “Is your name written in the Book of Life?”
What a terrifying moment for those whose names are not in the Book of Life. God says that they will be cast into the Lake of Fire and be separated from God for eternity. These people may have aced many exams in their life, but they have neglected the most important matter.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own
soul? Mark 8:36
For those whose names are in the Book of Life, God says that we are assured of a place in Heaven with Him for all eternity. The challenge for believers is how we should embrace the many exams (or trials) in our lives without losing hope in our God. We oftentimes baulked at such exams and preferred that God would give us lots of peace and blessings. Our responses to these exams do reveal our knowledge and trust in our God. May we have a faith like Job and James to trust in our Heavenly Father even if we don’t understand the reasons for these God-ordained exams.
shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did
not Job sin with his lips. Job 2:10b
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the
trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have herperfect work, that ye
may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:2-4
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