Outstanding A+

Today is the seventh birthday of my son, Amana Palmei. It is also the day his first grade final result was announced. Together as a family we went to meet his class teacher, and the sight of the event of his teacher meeting him and congratulating him was noteworthy.

The moment his teacher saw him, she hugged and congratulated him with the news that he topped the class with A+(outstanding) in almost all the subjects and some A(excellent) scores. He too was very excited over the result as he used to trail behind his friend who used to topped the class and who is also at least a year elder to him. As parent we are happy too and congratulated him, but I quickly reminded him that this is the Lord's answer to his and our prayer that the Lord would make him a good student, an outstanding student. In the class where we met the teacher, I took him aside for a short while for thanksgiving prayer, where he and I prayed giving thanks to the God who blesses. Besides, the day being his birthday, we all went for family shopping and lunch at KFC where he had his favorite meal. 

We experienced a wonderful time together enjoying the blessing of the Lord. This little incident strengthened the faith of our children as we taught them to pray and read the word of God everyday from their very young age, and learning to trust the Lord in small and big things. Every morning when I drove them to school we prayed together for the Lord's grace for the day, His wisdom, His blessing, and much more, to be a good student, diligent and faithful, besides praying for their classmates, teachers and the school in general, that one day they would come to know and believe into the Lord Jesus Christ.

In a similar manner, as a Christian I am student in a class called "life" where the Holy Spirit is my teacher and the Bible, my text book, and Jesus Christ, my principal, in the school called the church. Each day I am looking for grace to study well and do all my homeworks diligently that after the final exam I may be rewarded with a A+, an outstanding score. 

From my son, I am learning lessons of life. It is merely the Lord's grace that me and my wife are learning to be proper God-man parent for the Lord's testimony with all the three children the Lord has blessed us.

Thank you Lord for your blessing! Ever keep us by Your grace to continue to receive Your blessing, even an outstanding A+. Amen.