Does God give us more than we can handle?
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:23 pmI hear Christians constantly saying God will never give you more than you can handle. Personally I disagree with that. God will obviously never give you more than he can handle and he will always carry you through your times of troubles and despair but as far as never giving you more than you can handle yourself I disagree with, for a couple reasons. One is there would be no need for faith if we always were able to take care of our problems our self without having to lean on him for help. You see people are like little children who are just starting to learn to walk. They begin to be independent and with their new found independence they begin to get prideful which brings us to the second reason why I disagree with this saying of God not ever giving us more than we can handle.
When a baby is born they are completely in the need to depend entirely on their parents for everything. They can’t eat without their parents to feed them, they can’t go anywhere without mom or dad putting them where they want to be. They want to play in the play pin their parents would have to put them in the pin to play. If they want to swing then they would have to be placed in the swing but when they get to be roughly around 2 years old give or take, they begin to learn to walk and control their spoon while learning to feed them selves. With this newly developed skill they begin to become independent walking where they want to go on their own without the help of mom or dad. How ever with this new independence they have found they also get prideful for now they not only can do what they want without help, they now insist on doing it themselves. Have you ever had a child want a bottle of milk when they get tired and so when you begin to prepare the bottle for them to take a nap they scream at you for preparing it when they themselves want to prepare it so when you try to give them the bottle after you prepared it they reject it and throw themselves on the ground and scream in a fit. They best thing you can do is let them try to prepare it by putting the bottle at their level and let them try to take the gallon of milk and fill the bottle on their own. With the milk weighing almost half their body weight you know they can’t pour the milk in the bottle without making a big mess but you need to let them learn. After they make a mess and feel really bad they will then humble themselves to you and let you make the bottle and also they will turn to you to clean the mess they made. You must let them do this to break that pride they have of needing to do everything themselves.
Pride is only broken when you get into a situation that is above your capability to get out of and you have to rely on someone else to take care of it.
Like a child we are prideful and independent and like a child we must be humbled in order to allow God to take care of our needs and fix our mistakes.
When a baby is born they are completely in the need to depend entirely on their parents for everything. They can’t eat without their parents to feed them, they can’t go anywhere without mom or dad putting them where they want to be. They want to play in the play pin their parents would have to put them in the pin to play. If they want to swing then they would have to be placed in the swing but when they get to be roughly around 2 years old give or take, they begin to learn to walk and control their spoon while learning to feed them selves. With this newly developed skill they begin to become independent walking where they want to go on their own without the help of mom or dad. How ever with this new independence they have found they also get prideful for now they not only can do what they want without help, they now insist on doing it themselves. Have you ever had a child want a bottle of milk when they get tired and so when you begin to prepare the bottle for them to take a nap they scream at you for preparing it when they themselves want to prepare it so when you try to give them the bottle after you prepared it they reject it and throw themselves on the ground and scream in a fit. They best thing you can do is let them try to prepare it by putting the bottle at their level and let them try to take the gallon of milk and fill the bottle on their own. With the milk weighing almost half their body weight you know they can’t pour the milk in the bottle without making a big mess but you need to let them learn. After they make a mess and feel really bad they will then humble themselves to you and let you make the bottle and also they will turn to you to clean the mess they made. You must let them do this to break that pride they have of needing to do everything themselves.
Pride is only broken when you get into a situation that is above your capability to get out of and you have to rely on someone else to take care of it.
Like a child we are prideful and independent and like a child we must be humbled in order to allow God to take care of our needs and fix our mistakes.
