"The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure." I Corinthians 10:13
It sounds here like He won't give us anything we can't handle, and as far as temptation goes, the verse's promise is sure and true. Some people then think it also means that God won't allow anything in your life you can't handle and that is absolutely not true.
God will always give you tests and struggles you can't handle--especially when you are following His dreams--because you aren't supposed to be the one who handles them. He is. God's dreams will always be God sized, not human sized and that means by definition we won't be able to do them.
Jesus told us that His yoke was easy. That's because He's pulling the weight. If we are still working to earn something from Him, we're not carrying His yoke. That doesn't just go for salvation, but for all of our life in Christ. If we're the one working, then we're not relying on His work. That doesn't mean we don't work. That just means that we obey. Hebrews 4 talks about it in detail:
"9 So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. 10 For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. 11 So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall."
He does the miracles. We obey. When we try to work it out ourselves rather than just simply obeying the next step God has put in front of us, we will fall. The most we get to do is to walk beside Him and help, just as a toddler walks beside his dad to help. If the toddler tries to do the dad's job he cannot help but fail and will probably hurt himself in the process.
No more, "Me do it!!"
“O Sovereign LORD! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you!” Jeremiah 32:17
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