Greek : Silly Typo

It's a blessing to learn Greek, in fact, to be able to learn Greek under the guidance of genuine scholars who have done and overseen the translation work of the Holy Bible in to many major languages in the world! Under such teachers, I am privilege to be a student. 

Recently I frankly opined on an assignment with the view of drawing the attention of all the other learners to encourage them to faithfully and diligently learn and use the forum more frequently as a learning tool. My teacher's reply has a sentence which read,"Some of the learners here may wish to get everything right before they get the answer key and may feel hurt in pride if they do not." Initially I thought I never had this feeling nor would ever have such. But the second exam I took proved me wrong.

I did my best to study and study, and revised it again and again until I was confident enough to take the exam and score cent per cent. This hidden ambition of faithful study and hard work to get the best result was not bad in a sense, at least, as a student learning Greek. And when I indeed took the test I knew all the answers well and was expecting another 100 score, but I got stuck with a silly matter. 

The definite articles which I knew so well, I just forgot one article; it just slipped out of my head. I had no reason to explain this. But I knew it was the Lord's dealing to prove me of what my teacher commented. And besides, I made a very stupid and silly mistake of "ς" and "ζ", replacing the former with the latter as they look similar too. The tough questions I could answer so well and correctly, and the simplest and repeated question, I made silly typo, and spent more time in the easier part than the tougher.What a paradox! 

And finally on submission of the answers, I lost 2 marks out of 100. This exactly proved what was commented of my comment, "Some of the learners here may wish to get everything right before they get the answer key and may feel hurt in pride if they do not." Initially I thought I never had this feeling nor would ever have such." Thank God for the prophetic comment and the life-lesson I learned through this silly typo. Not just a matter of marks nor Greek lesson, but a matter of my being.

This experience was very perfecting to me personally; to see and know who am I in my naturalness and the Lord's sovereignty in dealing with me. To be a faithful and diligent learner, yet to be humble and expect the Lord's blessing. To do my best, yet to God to leave the rest; and accept whatever He bestows.

This Greek silly typo is a serious training on lessons of life. The God of small and silly things is the God of serious and supreme things as well. He works in silly ways to gain the silly and the serious alike. Thank God for this "Greek : Silly Typo" life lesson!