God never gives us more than we can handle. Heard that before? Said it? I have, on both accounts. But I was wrong, and so were all the people who said. It's simply not a true statement. God loves to give us more than we can handle. It's His standard operating procedure. If all God allows in our life in the way of enemies and obstacles is what we can handle and only calls us to do for Him what we have the ability and power to do, then we will quickly forget that we need Him in the first place.
No, God loves to give us way more than we can handle so that we will run to Him, lean on Him and trust Him to do the work and so that He will be given the glory for what is accomplished. I pray regularly that God gives me victory over my difficulties so that my success in those areas will be a testimony of His love and power and way of life. How could my success possibly point to the power of God if it appears that I could have won without Him?
Like the Israelites facing the mighty Jericho with walls so thick they raced chariots on them with nothing but their simple swords and their Mighty God, so God calls us to face things and situations that are absolutely impossible. It's when the impossible occurs that others can see His glory and power. No, it's not that God doesn't give us more than we can handle; it's that He handles what He gives us. So today when we come across those situations that we simply can't handle, let us not get angry at God for giving us too much but rather be thankful that He gave us enough that we would know better than to try to do it without Him.
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