The Exam Fear?!

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 29th week in Ordinary time 

October 22, 2024 - Ephesians 2:12-22; Luke 12: 35-38

Fear of examinations, is an inescapable human experience for most! Interestingly, the usual remedy proposed by teachers and other trainers is, learn your subjects on a daily basis, revise your classes everyday and when the exams come you will be better prepared. The point is, examinations are not something for which we need to prepare, they are just an end of a process of learning. At times when we do not have the right study attitudes, the examinations become an entity per se and worthy to be considered great hurdles to be crossed and not merely a formality to be undergone. Now, that was certainly not a session on study-skills... but therein we could find the crux of the Word today.

The Word reminds us how the Lord has chosen us and given us an identity that is entirely a grace: the identity of being the people of God, of being the offsprings of God, of being God's beloved children. When we are conscious of that identity, on a daily basis and conduct our affairs accordingly, we would not need to prepare, or be afraid of, or fret about what is called the moment of truth - the last judgment! Every choice that we make is a judgement we bring on ourselves... whether it is monitored or not; when I know that I am a child of God, that I am a son or a daughter of God and I live, believe and behave worthy of that identity, why should I fear? It is like the Master who was asked as he was having his cup of tea, 'what would you do, if the world ends this moment?' The Master said: "I would continue having my tea."