God’s University

I started school at a young age. I’d been teaching already when I was 19. It was because I love school and I love the pressures that it put me into. I liked to compete my own self, to test how far I could go… see myself beyond its threshold. In fact, my life was programmed already that at the age of 24, I must have finished my Ph.D. But it didn’t happen. I was stubborn and rebellious that I fell off track. Lessons learned though.

Now, I tried to get back to school for my post graduate study. But my hands are full already with my commitment to church, my present job and my family. Reality checks me of what I really want to do. If I do pursue my post grad studies, it means I have to give up my ministry, I have to let go of my week-day bible studies. My wants confronted me of what is really essential and pleasing to God. What made me come to a final decision was my tenet, I always make it a point to do God’s work first and put mine on hold, and that includes my wants. So I didn’t enroll this semester. I forego my master’s degree class. It just struck me what for? Does God need my Post Graduate degree to serve Him. I don’t know—I don’t think so. It’s not that I discouraged anyone to pursue grad school. I’m just speaking for myself considering varied desires hovered in my thoughts.

Then I came to realize too that I am actually in God’s university. (Enrolled in diverse subjects too) Faithfulness 101, Patience 101, Humility 101, Love 101, etc. What’s different in God’s university is its schedule is not TBA (to be arranged) but TFHA (twenty four hours a day); not only MWF or TTh but seven days a week. NO holidays or summer vacations. No lectures but pure laboratory and hands-on. Test and quizzes are unannounced. The grades? When we get to heaven.

Seriously really, it might be a paradox to anyone but, every areas in our lives are like subject matters that God allows us to take in His university (this world) that we may acquire Christ-likeness. And that we may pass all these areas with flying colors, maybe awarded not a Summa Cum Laude but God’s commendatory remark “ Well Done, God and faithful servant.” (Mt. 25:21)

What areas of your life now that you are on retake?