THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

This week our children will have been receiving the results of their Higher and National exams.

It is an anxious time! Some will be elated as they achieve the grades they need to move on to university.

Others will be disappointed when they fail to achieve the necessary standard.

It is a crucial time in the life of a young person.

Success opens the way for the future; failure seems to cast a shadow.

In the preparation for exams, teachers encourage their students to work hard in order to achieve the best grades possible.

However, not all students take the advice and some hope that by a combination of natural talent and good luck they will get through.

Often, however, the exams reveal their lack of preparation and the poor results that follow.

Throughout our working lives we face assessment.

Most employees receive some form of appraisal which indicates their performance and effectiveness in their job.

It is good to be appreciated and praised, but not easy to take constructive criticism which identifies our areas of weakness.

The Bible teaches that at the end of our lives we must all appear before God to be judged.

The certainty of God’s judgment is a solemn thing for us all.

None of us are perfect, we have all fallen short of what God requires of us.

We need someone to stand with us on that day who will be our Advocate and Saviour.

Jesus Christ came into the world to save us. On that day I will plead not what I have done or failed to do, but what he did for me.

It is our only hope.