God Will Never Give You More Than You Can Handle?

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Perhaps you've heard it said that God would never give you more than you can handle. Unfortunately that statement is not in the

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Bible. In fact it's very likely that you will experience more than you can handle. In 2 Corinthians 1 .8

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the Apostle Paul writes, for we do not want you to be unaware brothers of the affliction we experienced in Asia for we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.

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Indeed we felt that we had received the sentence of death but that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

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In Matthew 26 .38 Jesus says my soul is very sorrowful even to death. This is

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Jesus we're talking about here. Remember King David? Yeah the guy who beat a nine -foot giant with a stone in a sling?

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In Psalm 13 he prays for strength, lest I sleep the sleep of death lest my enemy says

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I have prevailed over him. In Psalm 88 he writes I cry out day and night before you.

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So the Bible says nothing about God keeping you from more than you can handle. What it does say is that God would not allow you to be tempted beyond your ability to resist.

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That's in 1 Corinthians 10 .13. In other words there's never an excuse to do evil. But when it comes to hardships they can get pretty rough and teach us to rely on God.

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He is still gracious delivering us even from the grave through the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ.