Have you ever wondered why airplanes are tested before they fly, or why drivers are tested before being entrusted with vehicles on the road? Have you also wondered why applicants are tested before they are employed, or why even food is tasted before it is served? Has anyone ever stopped to think about why many countries the world over have Standards Associations through which manufactured products pass on their way to the market?
Perhaps you will agree with me that tests are administered to try and predict performance. When products are tested before they reach the market it is in order to ascertain how reliable they are. Testing then, is bringing quality under scrutiny before use of the product. To deserve marketing, the product has to measure up to a certain standard, failure of which, it is discarded as a reject. Testing therefore is an attempt to establish how a product will perform when put to the use for which it is designed. This reduces chances of flooding the market with defunct products that would cause operation-crippling faults and accidents.
In business accidents are expensive. This is because accidents cause work stoppages, which in turn reduce profits. Accidents are also expensive in that they damage equipment, incurring repair work costs. Apart from that, accidents cause injury and loss of life. That is why, before an airplane flies, it is tested as a way of estimating the chances of a successful trip and a safe landing. If mechanical faults are suspected or detected, the flight would rather be delayed, and the faults fixed than gamble with lives by flying a defective plane. That is why before anyone is entrusted with a vehicle on our roads, they should satisfy the examiners of their driving competency. This serves to predict the occurrence or non-occurrence of traffic accidents. If an aspiring driver has questionable traits, he would rather take more lessons than be released on the road as a danger to other road users.
Before anyone can be employed, they normally undergo a variety of tests as a way of establishing how they would perform the tasks of the job. If the applicant has ill health for example, the employer can predict therefrom that the condition will have a negative impact on production. The decision to employ will then be based on whether the applicant will not be a liability, spearheading loss to an enterprise whose sole reason for existence is profit-making. Tests therefore are meant to identify potential hazards and seek means to eliminate them. The testing exercise is very essential as a prelude to recruitment of new personnel at a work place, before goods and products are marketed or machinery put to use. We call them fitness tests.
God has a grand and ambitious plan, the greatest drama of all time. The whole universe is the ring of spectators, and planet Earth is the theater for the drama. The grand drama has popularly been known as the plan of salvation or the plan of redemption. The objective is to reclaim fallen humanity from the dark planet to join the rest of the sinless worlds. The desired results or expected outcome is that once the reclaimed sinners are granted heavenly citizenship, sin and sinful tendencies will reign never more in them. By any standards, this is a grand and ambitious project, one that even angels watch with curiosity.
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