I am a good student, by which I mean that I engage with the material and do well on my tests, so I get good grades. Now that the semester is over, I won't get any educational tests for a while, but that doesn't mean that I'm not being tested. Today, I took a test, so to speak, and while the test wasn't graded, I know I didn't do very well.
I pride myself on being a good student, but it's much more important to be a good person. Students like me put a lot of effort into our school assignments, concerned about our grades and their potential effects on our GPAs, but in the grand scheme of things, those grades don't actually matter. God might care how much effort I put into my education and how much I learn from it, but I don't think He cares how many of my papers got As and how many of them didn't.
What God certainly does care about is how I act, and particularly how I treat my family. I lost my patience today, and that matters a lot more than the grade I got on my final. I may get good grades in the classroom, but if I don't set a good example for my nieces and nephews, isn't that a lot more important? I need to put at least as much effort into being a good person and setting a good example as I put into being a good student and getting good grades.
Whether you're a student or not, the fact that you're alive means that you are being tested, and these tests affect a lot more than whether or not you get accepted into a good university. They effect whether or not you get accepted into the Celestial Kingdom, and they affect other people. Righteousness is far more important than academics. We should all study the scriptures and school our feelings so we can pass the only tests that truly matter.
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