God Honored My Belief In His Word

After the kids were grown I decided to take some courses at the university. On registration day, students were gathered in the hallway near the Biology class, waiting for the door to open so we could sign up. I overheard someone saying that the instructor for this Biology class was impossibly hard, flunking a large percent of the students

I considered leaving and trying another class, but I felt inside that no, this is where I want to be. I love this subject. So I signed up.

True to his reputation, the instructor was unpleasant and demanding. But I plowed my way through anyway. One day I had a question. I raised my hand and he let me ask. We were studying DNA, which is a fascinating subject. There many afflictions today that are caused by mutations in a person’s DNA. I wanted to know if there are any instances of changes in DNA in which the organism is helped rather than afflicted. The professor gave me an evasive answer. So I asked again, rewording my question to be more clear. But …again he gave an evasive answer not answering my question. But I really wanted to know the answer, so I gulped and one more time, reworded my question. After giving me yet another evasive answer I gave it up.

The course work was heavy, the class difficult, but I stayed with it. When the day came of the final exam, I was shocked to see the questions on the exam paper. It included material we had never covered in class yet. I was so downhearted, knowing I’d never pass the course because I did not know the answers to the material we hadn’t covered. I had to leave at least a quarter of the exam empty because I simply did not know the answers. I knew he was tough, but I wouldn’t have expected him to have questions on the test consisting of material we hadn’t covered. I supposed that he must have expected that we would have gone on in the rest of the textbook, requiring us to know the material there. I left that class with my head down and very heavy-hearted. What a disappointment.

A few weeks later, my grades arrived in the mail from the university. This Biology class covered three semesters, all of which I took. My grades were as follows:

Semester 1: A
Semester 2: A
Semester 3: A

I was so shocked that I just stood there looking at it, not comprehending. How could this be???

I don’t know. I’ve wondered if my question that he evaded three times was actually opening up the question in his mind, with what that implied. Maybe he wasn’t being annoyed with my question. Maybe what I asked caused him to seriously consider the true answer to my question, something academia refuses to consider. But God…

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