If you can accept my testimony as an example, let me tell you that sometimes life throws more at me than I can handle—at least more than I can handle alone. I can’t do it in my own strength. I can’t.
The reason God allows you and I to experience times when we are consumed by trials—when they are bigger than our own strength can handle—is so that we have no where else to turn except toward Him. We are faced with one solution—and that is to realize Christ is our only hope! He is our solution.
After Paul wrote that his trial was bigger than his ability to endure, he offers an explanation. “But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead” (2 Corinthians 1:9).
There it is! That’s the ticket! Paul recognized truth—that this overwhelming time of trouble—that he couldn’t handle alone—had caused him to focus more on the power of God and allow God to work His perfect will in Paul’s life.
And that is God’s desired reality in our life. He wants us to fully rely on Him.
Are you being challenged beyond your ability to endure?
Don’t believe that you can do it alone! You can’t! You must not try!
Jesus said, “Apart from me you can do nothing”! Did you get that point? Nothing!
Don’t try anything today without relying on the power of God! He knows you’re weak. He is available to help—if you will call upon Him! When we are at our weakest—He is strong!
(I wrote this post over six years ago. I have now edited it and brought it forward.)
