Free at Last!

Thank God Almighty, I've taken the NCLEX and am free from it's horrible tortuous grip at last! Wow, what a horrible test. (For those who aren't keeping up, the NCLEX is the national board certification test for nursing) The test gauges how you perform as you take it and responds with increasingly difficult or decreasingly easy questions. I didn't feel like I knew the answer to a single question on that test, so I'm assuming that I passed. hehe... The test shuts off when it determines what level of competency you're at. 75 is the minimum amount of questions you can have; 265 is the maximum amount. I had 75 questions. So I either really blew it or I blew it out of the water.

I had a lot of anxiety about it yesterday when I woke up. So I prayed to God about it. I was reminded about a passage in Philippians about giving up your anxieties to God and His peace guarding my heart or something like that... So I started reading at Chapter 3 (I couldn't remember that it was in chapter 4). Immediately I was convicted that I was relying on my own strength to pass this test. God calls us to rely on His strength in everything. He gets the glory, not me. Yes, we need to study, practice, etc... but in the end, it's God that builds the house (a reference to a psalm... 122?). After prayer I felt a lot of peace. This morning as I took the test, even when I didn't know any of the answers, I felt a huge amount of peace. Praise God!

I'll keep you posted on the outcome. But I think I passed.