Over the past number of days exams have been very much in the news. Be it with questions that couldn't be answered on Further Mathematics papers or business studies modules.
The papers have rightly focused on the emotional turmoil that this has caused students during an already very stressful time in their lives. Many students are worried that the marks and time lost trying to figure out these unanswerable questions could cost them university places.
As Jesus was travelling around some towns and villages teaching a man comes up to him with a question, "Lord will those who are saved be few?" The man wants to know how many people will be saved at the end of time, some people thought the whole of the Jewish nation would be saved while others thought that some very obvious un-repentant sinners would be lost but the rest of the Jewish nation would be saved.
But how would Jesus answer? Jesus tells the man "Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able." Jesus doesn't answer the mans question directly, he doesn't tell him that 2 million people or whatever will be saved but rather tells the man to make sure that he himself was among the number that would be saved. This was the most important thing not the number of people who would be saved but that we ourselves are among the number that are saved.
How can we do this though? How can we know for definite that we are saved? Well when we enter through the narrow door, when we come to put our trust in Jesus Christ and say sorry for our sin, then we can know for sure that we will be saved. Don't worry about the number of people who will be saved but rather let's focus on our own relationship with God...
