Will God Ever Give Us More Than We Can Handle?
Whether that statement — “God will never give us more than what we can handle” — is biblically correct depends on what we mean by we and handle. What do we mean? Do we mean God takes into account our independent possibilities based on our track record of handling trouble and, thus, measures out that trouble to us so that it doesn’t go beyond what we — independently, by our own resources — can handle? Is that what we mean? “If I survive any test or accomplish any work when I am tested, it is grace, decisively grace — not decisively me.” Tweet Share on Facebook Or, do we mean that we can handle it if we receive it by faith in divine assistance and that God knows what he himself will give us by grace in enabling us to handle what he gives us? So, he is not thinking of we as independent, but we as dependent on the grace that comes with the difficulty. Which of those two does this statement ask about? What does handle mean? Does handle mean you never collapse under it? Does it me