Contrary to popular belief, I am an awful student. (Though I'm sure several of my teachers past and present can testify to this.)
Usually I just about scrape by throughout the school year, getting rubbishly average test scores at best in class and not fulfilling my potential at all. Yet somehow (to the annoyance of many people), at the end of the year, I pull out the high A grades my teachers expect of me with a relatively small amount of effort (compared to others). How? I'm not entirely sure, it is certainly not deserved! But it is all by the grace of God and I am definitely thankful!
Recently I've been really challenged about my half-hearted, 'I'll get the grades in the end' attitude. God's placed me in college to be a student and so, with my previous attitude, I'm not honouring Him and not using the gifts (intelligence) He's given me.
I've loved listening to a seminar from the Aber 2011 conference about how to honour God through our studies. In the past I've been fooled in to adopting the mindset that I would be honouring God more by helping out in church and CU, by spending time in fellowship rather than studying. I've been tricked in to believing my studies were unimportant, that what I did almost didn't matter.
In truth God has placed me here, in Yale College Wrexham, to be a Christian student.
That doesn't mean that doing the other stuff is bad. Helping in church is great. Engaging in fellowship stirs my affections for Christ. But so does studying. Doing what God has placed me here to do makes me love Him more.
Anyway, for the first time since I was much younger I'm putting effort in to my college work. I'm talking actual, creating-revision-timetables-and-sticking-to-them effort. My easter assignments have been completed (almost), my revision organised and past papers printed...
Praying it will pay off, and that God will be showing me more how I can glorify Him through my studies.
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