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Aiming for 100% while being lazy sounds like a contradiction, but funnily enough I am very similar: I give 110% when I work/do something for someone else while giving only ~20% when I do something for myself. I often feel lazy because of that - knowing that I could do better and get better marks, but at the same time I have worked enough for other people to know that I am not lazy in the sense of a personality trait. Perhaps it is like that with you, too.
Either way, to get a PhD is not how you make God happy, and when Jesus said in Mt 5:48 "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect", he certainly did not mean to not fail an exam in school. We can't take anything with us when we die, not even our education. God is concerned about your soul, not your graduation.
Here a story from the Bible (Mark 8:14ff) that shows we should stop thinking in "natural" ways and start thinking spiritually:
"The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. “Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.”
They discussed this with one another and said, “It is because we have no bread.”
Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
“Twelve,” they replied.
“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
They answered, “Seven.”
He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”"
This doesn't mean that God doesn't help us in our daily life, even at school/university. He sure does! But our first priority should be to please God (by being worthy children of God, which is measured in holiness and not school marks) instead of worrying about how well we do in this world.
Don't get me wrong, we are supposed to put effort into our every-day life, and education is part of that. But if your kind of "laziness" is similar to what I've described in the beginning then it's not the kind of laziness that is a bad habit.
Either way, to get a PhD is not how you make God happy, and when Jesus said in Mt 5:48 "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect", he certainly did not mean to not fail an exam in school. We can't take anything with us when we die, not even our education. God is concerned about your soul, not your graduation.
Here a story from the Bible (Mark 8:14ff) that shows we should stop thinking in "natural" ways and start thinking spiritually:
"The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. “Be careful,” Jesus warned them. “Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod.”
They discussed this with one another and said, “It is because we have no bread.”
Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: “Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
“Twelve,” they replied.
“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?”
They answered, “Seven.”
He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”"
This doesn't mean that God doesn't help us in our daily life, even at school/university. He sure does! But our first priority should be to please God (by being worthy children of God, which is measured in holiness and not school marks) instead of worrying about how well we do in this world.
Don't get me wrong, we are supposed to put effort into our every-day life, and education is part of that. But if your kind of "laziness" is similar to what I've described in the beginning then it's not the kind of laziness that is a bad habit.
We tend to think this way because humans want to deserve what they get. It is hard to accept that God's love and help is independent of our performance. In fact, if God only helped us when we are perfect then we would have to navigate through life completely alone, without God's help. In reality though it is God's greatest pleasure to walk by our side and leading the circumstances of our lives to our best.
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