So true.
The problem is we think we know more than God and thus think we cannot handle anymore.
My brother proved that wrong.
Usually Corinthians 10:13 is cited.
It makes me cringe.
It is not Biblical.
It doesn’t make rational sense.
It is not true on its face. Christians die. Christians die from persecution. Christians suffer and die from persecution.
It also suggests God is cruel. God will let you suffer and suffer and suffer and suffer but won’t let you die to end the suffering.
I am a Bible-believing, God-fearing, Christ-following (at least I aim to be) Christian. This non-Biblical saying makes me cringe.
It’s a comforting saying, but God gives some people more than they can handle.
Absolutely unbiblical. Scripture tells us that He can subject us to whatever He decides is necessary...but He will never leave, nor forsake any of His chosen believers. Dennis is a Jew who rejects Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. Tragic, although he is a nice fellow.
Sounds like something they’d say in AA.
I’ve heard that statement many times over the years and think it’s rather trite and not exactly biblical.
Jesus tells us we will have troubles in this world, but be of good cheer as he has overcome the world. It is only by abiding and trusting in Christ that we can handle anything.
I’ve had my share of tribulations and praying to God for hope and strength helped me a lot.
1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJ21) 13 There hath no temptation taken hold of you but such as is common to man. But God is faithful; He will not suffer you to be tempted beyond that which ye are able to bear, but with the temptation will also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
The context of that is "temptation". It does not refer to health, which is a common mistake. Everyone of us will eventually see our bodies fail due to more than it can bear.
1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJ21) 13 There hath no temptation taken hold of you but such as is common to man. But God is faithful; He will not suffer you to be tempted beyond that which ye are able to bear, but with the temptation will also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
The context of that is "temptation". It does not refer to health, which is a common mistake. Everyone of us will eventually see our bodies fail due to more than it can bear.
My thought is that sometimes God gives you an F5 tornado and you end up dead.
“How much you can handle” is a very difficult line to draw. God knows “how much you can handle”, but neither you nor I nor the neighbor who tells you this can really say how much that is, can we?
God allows things to happen to us. The book of Job is the ultimate example of this. Job finally had “all he could take”, as it were, and got angry, asking God lots of questions that basically amounted to “That’s not fair!”, or “Why me?” Then God straightened him out by asking Job a series of rhetorical questions which pretty much could be summed up by “Who do you think you are, to question Almighty God?”
In my view, God allows us to face more than we can handle quite often - so we will turn to HIM for help.
I much prefer the more theologically sound, “Nothing can touch you without first, God allows it.” And He will NEVER forsake his children. He will be there when you turn to Him.
Psalm 121
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Well something kills every one of us so that’s more than we can handle. I think the saying would be accurate if it went, “God never gives you more than He can handle.”
There is another saying that goes “God won’t give you more than you and He can handle together.”
The whole notion gets into the difference between God’s perfect will and His permissible will.
I do not believe God sends people trouble or persecution.
Bovine excrement! Mierde del torro!
This quote is a brush off to someone in trouble. It is used at the most inappropriate moments.
Once, a pastor had said that to me and my instant reaction was "why are you cursing me? get thee behind me satan" and I just walked away without saying a word. He probably thought I rejected God by doing that but I had rejected the pastor.
Later I read the scripture this was paraphrased from and it refers to addictions and self imposed stuff when one is going through withdrawal symptoms when trying to get clean. That, was not my problem.
The line that makes me cringe is “If God doesn’t feel close to you, who moved?”
It is the cruelest comment one can make to another who is experiencing a period of God’s silence, yet knows he is seeking God with his whole heart.That long dark night of the soul is difficult enough without being blamed for it, and in such a flippant manner. But I know I will see that cruel quote on a church sign again and again.