Ribbons

"Opening a box full tied by curled red ribbons. My heart was beating fast. What could be inside??. As promised, I untied each ribbon carefully, I didn't want to tear the wonderful gift wrap which concealed of the present. Finally, after the last ribbon my hands were trembling with excitement, and i opened the wrapper and i dropped the box. Tears came to my eyes as the box slipped out of my hands, gravity doing the rest of the work as it dropped to the floor. Grabbing the hand of the person that gave the present to me, I thanked Him."

Whats inside? A lesson. For the first time in my 3 years of being a 'true scholar' in a higher level learning institute, i failed a subject. Well during the exam, a month ago, I already knew I would do bad, but not fail. Sigh, I guess this failure does have many deep lessons installed for not only me, but probably everyone else. I know that I did try my best but it proved that it wasn't enough.

A lesson learnt. The subject was about memorizing stuff, and spitting them out onto the paper. I was never good at it, I preferred exams that were more mind taxing. Now I know that, God as given us all, yea all these gifts and the devil just tries to trick us by telling us "You can't do it", and foolishly, I complied. I learnt that when Paul said "I can do everything through Christ Jesus who strengthens me." He literally meant it. And I thank God for letting me see this through :)