A lesson on faith, prayer and God's goodness

Proverbs 3:4, “4 And so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man.”

Frankly speaking, I do not really practise any faith or do prayers often. I seem to believe only in myself until this incident. I just finished my test in school but I had a few problems with answering some of the questions. Nevertheless I still wanted to top the class, deep in my heart. Unfortunately when I checked whether I have answered the questions in my test correctly, I was really disappointed with my answers. With my expectation to excel and top the class, I doubt I would be able to make it. Perhaps I should have prayed before I do the test or even as I was preparing for it. All these while, Jesus did not cross my mind.

After 3 weeks of school vacation, I did not know why but I started to pray the night before school reopened. I remembered the test that I previous wanted to do well and I just started praying to get good results earnestly and wholeheartedly.

The next morning, every classmate was expecting to receive their result anxiously particularly me. My lecturer came and showed us an excel file with our results. To my huge surprise, I got the highest score. I was extremely elated and grateful to God! With my result, I was even presented with a prize from my lecturer as a bonus. This prize was not even mentioned earlier.

Looking back, I did well in my test and even received an unexpected prize. I thank Jesus for answering my prayer as well as for His mercy and grace. After all, I did not do as badly as I thought it would be. Probably God had given me the favor of my lecturer as what was written in Proverbs 3:4. I believe God, being my spiritual Father, wanted me to have a fore taste of His goodness despite my passiveness in getting closer to Him. He answered my earnest prayer this time but in future, I have better learn to exercise my faith in a more proper way. That is to do my humanly best in preparing for my test and then pray for God to give me the wisdom that I need before I do my test.

JT