More Than You Can Handle

We’ve all heard the phrase, “God will never give you more than you can handle” when we’re going through a hard time. I don’t know about you guys, but I know that when I heard this after my mom died, I was mad. I couldn’t handle what I was going through.

I’ve come to the conclusion that, standing on its own, this saying is not true.

God does give us more than we can handle. At least, more than we can handle on our own. On our own we are weak; in the hard times we find ourselves breaking down and blaming God. “Where are you, God?!” we may scream in anger.

The answer is that, He is right next to us.

I think that the saying should be changed to read; “God will never give us more than we can handle as long as we put our faith in Him.”

Because with God, we can handle anything. As long as we continue to walk on our own path and turn our back on God, we will face countless circumstances that we cannot handle. However, with our trust placed in Christ, and our minds on Him, we can have His peace.

The truth is, it’s ok to feel like we can’t handle a situation. Though the world may say that we have to be strong and that we should be able to handle anything, we don’t have to be.

We can tell God that we are feeling like we are at the end of our ropes. We can ask Him why He’s doing this to us. It’s ok for us to find ourselves on our knees pouring our hearts out to God and crying.

As a matter of fact, that is the best place you can find yourself in when you are suffering.

God often uses these times to bring us close to Him. These are times when God can draw close to you and carry you if you’ll allow Him to.

Lyrics from Mandisa’s Overcomer oftentimes remind me of this.

Whatever it is you may be going through
I know He's not gonna let it get the best of you

The part I pick out from this lyrics is the fact that, it isn’t about us. I think she hit the nail on the head when she said that He’s not going to let it get the best of us. We can’t make it on our own. We need to put our faith in God and He will help us through.

Don’t fall for the lie that we have to be able to handle everything on our own. Because we can’t. You will find yourself in a situation where you feel like you’re drowning. But god will reach you and lift you out of the water if you will allow Him to.

So next time you hear that God will never give us more than we can handle, just remember that that isn’t true.

Remember that instead God will never give you more than you can handle if you put your trust in Him and lean on Him instead of on your own strength.