“God will never give you more that you can handle.” I’ve heard it a thousand times, but it’s a lie from hell. It’s a false hope against trouble in your life. Jesus promised there’d be trouble, but He said to take heart because He has overcome the world.
There’s a passage of Scripture that says that God chooses the weak things of this world to show His strength and upset the wisdom of those who think they’re wise.
It’s really funny. Isn’t that what He did with Christ? He chose a weak form to show His strength in living sinless, paying the punishment for sin, and overcoming the grave. It was by becoming weakness Himself that He carried out the greatest miracle to this day.
But no miracle is possible unless He gives us precisely more than we can handle. We have no reason to trust anyone else unless we’re allowed to see that, no, we don’t “got this.” God doesn’t tempt us, but He does give us opportunities to build our faith in Him. That can only be achieved by extraordinary circumstances and an extraordinary God.
Michael William Nichols 