“Creeek! Bang!” the mailbox flap crashed! I let go of it and my graduation invitations all at once, my heart throbbing a few extra beats, but suddenly feeling a rush of relief! I did it! I had placed all my graduation invitations in the mailbox! You see I had been a student all my life going from high school/marriage/baby one/baby two, and now I was just a couple of weeks away from my college graduation, the one thing I had worked so hard to accomplish for twelve, long years, of work, night school, marriage, and babies. But there was ONE “IF” – if I passed this last summer math class, that had about killed me from stress, after not having had math for seven years. In seven years, my left side of my brain had been wiped out, so I thought.
The math professor was wicked and mean spirited almost wishing everyone in his class would fail. In fact the very first day of class, he bragged about his small margin passing rate, as I sat in the back of the class wanting to melt through my chair at his arrogance. He almost proved it with me. He timed every test, and for me, it seemed that everything that could go wrong did, including getting a flat tire and being late to take one of his tests. I hate timed tests, and seldom do well on them, because I get so, so nervous at the clock ticking! Must I say, that my grades steadily, quickly, declined.
So at the foot of that mailbox, no doubt, fear had enveloped me! “What if I fail the class? How humiliating! If I mail the graduation invitations, I will have to tell all my friends and family that I have failed and will not be graduating after all. How embarrassing! How humiliating!” I can't do it! I won't do it! But, I did! You know why, because I remembered that, “If you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. 22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” Matthew 21:21-22.
I mailed those invitations and God performed the hugest miracle. I never did get my first “C” in a college course. God turned my declining almost failing grade into a miraculous “B.” I don’t know how I aced that final test! There is no explanation for it. The test was still timed; he was still the same professor, and I was more nervous than ever. But my God is greater than any adversity, challenge, or circumstance, we could ever face! Won’t you hold on to His promise today? “If you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. 22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer” Matthew 21:21-22 (New International Version, ©2010)
