God Never Gives More Than You Can Handle....

When I hear this statement I cringe. I tend to not get into debates with people over this because I don't know the Bible all that well. Yet I know that statement is NEVER found in the Bible!

God never allows more to happen in your life than He can handle. God allows situations to happen so that you are broken down and have no choice but to cry out and totally rely upon Him.

If God never gave us more than we could handle - what would we need Him for?

I really think it is sad to watch parents teach children that God never gives you more than you can handle because that gives them the wrong ideas about what God will allow. Since what we think we can handle and what God allows to happen will never be the same thing. Why give them a false impression about what God allows in peoples lives?

The sad thing right now is that I am not totally broken. You would think with everything that goes on in my life and how stressed I am - I would be at the bottom and unable to get up without His help and yet I just keep on standing up and getting knocked back down.

I have been trying to focus on why I am like this. I have been trying to work through the fact that I don't/can't depend upon myself fully. Hopefully someday soon - I will get there...