More Than We Can Handle

I have to admit...

Sometimes life is just ridiculous. Problems never seem to stop, sometimes life feels like a row of Dominos falling, crashing into one another, time after time after time.

You with me?

I know we should have the "at least you have food and roof--be content with your circumstances" perspective but my response to that platitude is: "the reason I have this problem is BECAUSE I'm blessed with a roof and food. If I didn't have those things, I'd have different problems!"

Problems are STILL problems no matter where we are at in our social or financial life.

Paul had problems...

"...we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we were under a sentence of death. But that was to make us rely, not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead."
(2 Corinthians 1:8-9)

"burdened beyond our strength"

Hmmm...I guess God gave Paul more than he could handle. Any of us have more problems than we can handle?

Why? To make us stronger? To bless us? To test us? Maybe. Sometimes those things are the result. But the real reason we have more problems than we can handle?

So we can "rely, not on ourselves, but on God"

I don't know about you, but I'm gonna try relying on Him today!