What an outcry against Ofqual about the recent exam results. There are always surprises and disappointments, but not like this. The use of an ‘algorithm’ to modify teachers’ grades has caused outrage. Some students claimed that their dedication and diligence were futile and their futures wrecked. Hence the dramatic U-turn.
Predicting or forecasting is always difficult and often imprecise. Human judgement is fallible, and algorithms like the one used cannot be fair to everyone.
But God knows everything and His judgement is always perfect. He never makes a mistake.
He is the Rock, His work is perfect; for all His ways are justice, a God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He (Deuteronomy 32:4).
He is no respecter of persons:
For there is no partiality with God.
Romans 2:11
So geographical location, sex, ethnicity or status make no difference to His justice.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:28
He is the judge, through His son Jesus. He is the ultimate decision-maker. In the final analysis human opinion will count for nothing and there will be no right of appeal.
But there will be surprises and disappointment, nonetheless.
Jesus warned that he would reject some people and say:
Luke 13:27-28
‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity’. And added that ‘There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth,when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out’.
To others, exquisite joy, when he says
‘Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord’.
Matthew 25:23
Serving God is never futile, but the way we do this determines our eternal future. Let us read His word, the Bible, and try to please Him.
Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing [correctly handling] the word of truth.
2 Timothy 2:15