God School

It is a disservice to tell folks that if they would only put their trust in God, everything in life gets easier. Your children suddenly mind you, you get the promotion you have been passed over for, your car runs better, your relationships become more fulfilling. Not only is it a disservice, it is downright wrong. Once we put our trust in God, we enroll in God School. This school is in session every single day, we have daily tests and quizzes, we have mountains of homework. Graduation day is the day we leave this earth and stand in front of Him, and He says "Well done, good and faithful servant." Meanwhile, we are constantly faced with all the same challenges we have always had to face in school; taunters and teasers, cliques, disappointments, failure, pressure to succeed, insolence, repetition, boredom, and the finiteness of a brain that cannot understand hard concepts. We have good days too, of course, days when it all makes sense and we got our homework in on time, when we got picked first for dodgeball, and the popular kids made room for us at the lunch table, when we set the grade curve. God School is hard because it is designed to make us better, wiser, kinder, whole. More like Him, and that is good. No wonder it takes a lifetime.