The Lord will fight for you Week 44, 2025
I
had an exam coming up the following day; I had never known what brain fag was
until now. I would finish reading a line, and by the time I will be going to the
next line, I had forgotten what I had read! I spent the night awake in frustrated
attempts at reading. We had had absolutely no lectures in this course; it was a
technical one in my final year of engineering. An eight-month lecturers’ strike
had resulted in a highly compressed academic year, and we, the students, were left
to pick up the pieces. Other students could depend on cheating during the
exams; I could do no such thing, being a believer in and follower of Jesus
Christ. Ex 23:2
Do not follow the majority when they do wrong or when they give testimony that
perverts justice.
How then could I pass if I couldn’t read even a
line? By the time it was 7:00 am (the exam
was set for 9:00 am), I called my parents in frustration and asked
for help. Their counsel amazed me, “Go and sleep for an hour” was what they
said, “you need the rest to be able to do the exam. You can’t do the exam in
this state”. Is 30:15 For thus said the Lord
GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and
rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” I reluctantly agreed after they told me God would do the work one step at a time. So after sleeping, I got to the exam hall before 9:00 am without reading. Is 35:4 Say
to those who have an anxious heart, “Be
strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the
recompense of God. He will come and save you.” When I got there, I learned that the exam had been shifted to 1:00 pm-
that was the beginning of the miracle!
I
couldn’t go back to sleep, so I looked around and saw some colleagues reading
and revising with past question papers. It seemed a good idea to me to join
them, and so I picked one which had six questions to answer, five. I would copy
out the question and answer it and do the necessary calculations. I was able to
get through five of them before the exam- now I had something to go by. I went
into the exam hall trusting God to help me. When I looked at the question paper, I was in shock: the lecturer simply changed the date. It was the exact script I
had been working on before the exam, six questions to answer, five. I gasped,
hardly believing what God had done, and set about writing. I was able to answer
five very confidently.
After
the exams, there was a general cry by the students to go and meet the lecturer
to see how he could make sure we would all pass. The exam was easy for me, but I
had no choice but to join them. And so that is how I got a “B” in a course I
knew virtually nothing.
Truly, the Lord fought for me. Ex 14:13-14 Moses
answered, "Don't be afraid! Stand your ground, and you will see what the
LORD will do to save you today; you will never see these Egyptians again. The
LORD will fight for you, and all you have to do is keep still."
