Before I got admitted into the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2012, I was just at home, spending time with the family and playing basketball. Earlier, I’d bought the forms for school, filled and submitted them. Then the results came out and it didn’t take long for the university to release the list of admitted freshers. Confident about getting admitted, I went to the school’s website and typed my name: “No results found.”
“Well, they might have made a mistake with my name,” I thought.
I went ahead to check for all admissions for the Dentistry programme; my name wasn’t in there. Then I checked on Petrochemical Engineering…nadah! Same with Computer Science and MediLab…Yawa! Ei! I was surprised and I nearly panicked because I had put in effort to study and get good grades in the WASSCE. They were not excellent grades but they were very good. So I had some faith in my efforts that they would get me in.
Well, my efforts failed in getting me in, but some undeserved favor worked. My mum’s former boss sometime past happened to be the current Provost at the College of Science, Knust. She was able to contact him about the situation and that was it. He invited us to come to the school (2 weeks after the semester had already began) and I got an offer to read BSc. Biochemistry in KNUST.
And the next four years I spent there, changed my life. I’ve had countless testimonies of how grace (unmerited favour) has worked and transformed me in those 4 years. When I look out how God led me to Gracefields Chapel and Rev. Simon Ampofo, how my life got transformed and still is, the amazing friends and memories I made, even how a stranger on Facebook just paid for a need of mine, etc., I’m fully convinced that grace is better.
So one day as I looked back at my life, it dawned on me that where effort fails, grace works, but where grace fails, nothing works. Effort is good so keep at it, by all means work hard. But hey, you can have better, grace is better! Grace makes difficult and impossible things easy. And hey grace is a person, He is Jesus. Grace says, “Come to me with your burdens and I will give you rest.”(Matthew 11:28-30). I pray that you discover grace today.
Have a blessed day. Do share with friends and family.
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