god will not give us more than we can handle?

Question

do you beleive that fully? have you ever felt like you were dealing with more than you could handle? i have. and what does it take for us to concede that circumstances are more than one could handle? suicide? mental breakdown?or do those situations imply an unfaithfulness?
im curious to read your responses. i personally feel that sometimes we are dealt more than we can handle.

Answer 1

I've never agree with that statement. Its usually used as a statement of comfort (basically "I know this is really hard for you, but you're strong and God knows you're strong and you're going to get through this") but I find it naive. There are plenty of people who commit suicide because what was happening in their life really was more than they could handle. Did God goof?

Besides, it also implies that God personally hands out all misery, that it has nothing to do with cause or effect. I don't like the implication that he is that petty, quite frankly.

Answer 2

I guess I have felt, on occasion, that he has given me more than I can handle. One recent time happened maybe 18 months ago when I was working in the lab and accidentally shocked myself when I touched a piece of high voltage equipment. I was on an insluating floor and the current should have been very low, but the shock was a trigger for fear and worry and I could not get it out of my mind. I had the idea that I had damaged my heart. Now the rational part of my brain did not believe this because, I'm an expert on high voltage and I know what it takes to cause a physical problem and I could not have experienced enough current to be anyway leathal, but I could not shake this irrational dread. Praying helped but did not eliminate the dread. It was not panic but it certainly was irrational anxiety and I was "posessed" by it. I felt that God had given me too much to handle.

I turned to my wife, who found a Christian psychiatrist on the internet and I called the psychiatrist. She saw me that day even though she normally did not have office hours that day. I let her know that I had a history of these irrational anxieties that had been happening more and more frequently starting a few years ago and that this one was totally overwhelming me. Within a few sessions and with some medication I was dramatically improved. I have to take medication because of anxiety, but I am much improved.

Was this a situation where God gave me something (not the illness, but the experience) that was too much to handle? No. I handled it didn't I, or you could say that he helped me handle it, or you could say that he gave me someone who helped me handle it. Regardless, it wasn't really more than I could handle because it was handled.

Answer 3

We don't always know why some things happen to us—nor do we always know where they came from. God is at work in the world—but so is the devil, and we can't blame God for everything that happens to us.

Sometimes, in fact, we are responsible for the bad things that happen to us, because we make wrong decisions or deliberately turn our backs on God and His will for our lives. The Bible says, "When tempted, no one should say, 'God is tempting me.' For ... each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed" (James 1:13-14).

But the most important thing I can tell you is this: No matter what happens to us, God is able to take it and use it for our good—if we let Him. Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery and told his father he was dead—but instead of being bitter or depressed, Joseph put his life into God's hands. As a result, God used him to save Egypt from famine. Later, after the brothers were reunited, Joseph told them, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good" (Genesis 50:20).

Begin by giving your life to Christ and asking Him to come into your heart. Then ask Him to give you the wisdom and strength you need to deal with your hard times. Most of all, ask Him to teach you through these experiences about His constant love.

Answer 4

Suicides and mental breakdowns significantly imply that people have been dealt more than they can handle.

They saying to the contrary is just something that helps some people get through hard times.

Answer 5

Everything that happens is really a chance to grow,expand,let-go. When we feel we have to much, we have focused on the negative and are missing the cleansing action and positive result. When we get tired of falling in the same mud-hole we resolve to stand up and climb out and go on our way. Every event and experience is for our betterment and not for our misery.

Answer 6

I became epileptic when I was in the 1st grade. then 19 years later my boss tried to murder me with a hammer then was stalking me. I had to disappear. My spells became a lot worse. Then eight years ago both of my sons were kidnapped; as the stress builds up my spells go off, and the stress is gone when the spell is over. I realize God graced me with my epilepsy, to protect me from the stress of my sons missing. Because God knew what would happen, where we don't.

Answer 7

Psalm 55:22 - Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.

Anyone who commits suicide has lost faith that God can forgive and send His grace upon them to sustain them. They lost focus, and lost the ability to hand there problem over to the care of God.

EDIT: To Doodlestuff : Pope John Paul II experienced more terror than you could possibly imagine. He lived under Nazi occupation in Poland, and then under Communist oppresion, but he never lost his faith. You have NO idea what REAL hardship is! Americans are SOFT, and get upset if their Cable TV goes out. Did you see that idiot bimbo on Youtube crying about Britney Spears? No one in America knows REAL persecution or hardship.

Answer 8

i believe in that. When you feel like you cant handle it no more, u go to Him and ask for help. I have been in a situation where things were really getting to me and i decided to leave my worries to him and after i decided to 100% trust in Him, everything got better afterwards.

Answer 9

It's a total crock made up by some guy who had never had really awful problems in his life. Sortof the religious equivalent of pop psychology. Many ministers, priests and other clergy absolutely detest this statement that mocks those with terrible problems such as schizophrenia. Don't believe it.

Answer 10

its not so much tht we can handle everything, its how we react to everything. i have faith tht God has given me a job tht i can rise to, but if u feel diffrently thts ok, ur not faithless. mostly its a test of faith, and at the end u'll come out stronger. God tests us to prepare us 4 things tht we will face in life. remember tht.