And though the LORD gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers shall not be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers. – Isiah 30:20 KJV The teacher is always silent during a test. A good teacher anyways, not the miracle center kind, the one who came to class every day, prepped his students, even did weekend classes and online videos during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The one who took time to explain, to bring specimens from out of school just so you could experience the concept in real life.

As I paint this picture, maybe an Agric teacher comes to mind, a biology teacher? Your fine arts teacher? Or maybe your Math teacher, but you’re too scared to admit it.Oh well, we’ve all at some point had a really good teacher and we knew before exams that we were not getting any assistance. We also knew it was not from a place of wickedness but from a place of confidence that the teacher has done all that was needed and taught us well enough to trust in our ability to take the exams without cheating, or fear of failure.

What is the purpose of a test?

School sweet but na exam spoil am. Why do Christians go through tests? What do distress, challenges, and tribulation do for our journey and worse off, why does our teacher seem to be silent through it? Sometimes it takes us unawares, like a “tear a piece of paper and write your name” kind of flash test on a Monday morning.

A spiritual gbas gbos, unexpected, seemingly undeserved. But like school, to move on to the next level, we’ve got to show that we’ve understood all the current level has taught us, as the knowledge gained is not for the school or the teacher, but for our own good. For if we graduate from a class without gaining the prerequisite knowledge, we are bound to struggle in the next class.

Did you ever struggle with a subject? You’re in class, everyone is using a compass and meter rule but you just for the love of God, cannot understand what’s going on. In situations like this, there’s a high probability that you missed class on the first day the elementary was taught, or you were present but did not understand it at all, and except by divine intervention or through revision, you’re most likely to hate that topic for the rest of your life and probably fail it as well. Life is kind of like that, but God doesn’t want us to hate any part of life.

We’re supposed to enjoy living. “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”– Psalm 68:19

You need to be equipped for the next level and you can only do that… successfully if you’ve passed the previous stage, understood the concept, and grabbed the fundamentals enough for the subsequent layers to come. “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” -Psalm 11:3 So, consider the waiting, the delay, the disappointment as a building phase. Remember what you do ultimately determines the quality of your promotion to the next stage.

“For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”– Psalm 84:11 “ But God’s not finished. He’s waiting around to be gracious to you. He’s gathering strength to show mercy to you. God takes the time to do everything right—everything. Those who wait around for him are the lucky ones. “–Isaiah 30:18

So yeah, the teacher may be silent but He’s not absent, He’s watching over you to come out strong and if you’re reading this today, it serves as a reminder that the Teacher may not be silent after all

I leave you with this verse: “ …the Master won’t ever walk out and fail to return.If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense.He takes no pleasure in making life hard,in throwing roadblocks in the way:Lamentations 3:31-33