So true.
Posted on 06/10/2015 11:41:33 AM PDT by MNDude
I was listening a little bit to Dennis Prager yesterday, and his Ultimate Issues issue of the day was about when people try to comfort someone suffering by telling them "don't worry, God never gives you more than you can handle."
I just heard a little bit of the program, but his stance was these are the least comforting words ever created and this is not found in the Bible.
What are your thoughts on this saying?
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Yes. 1 Corinthians 10:13 is referring to TEMPTATION.
Unfortunately, when taken out of context, like other Bible Verses, it can be used to justify anything!
Temptation isn’t the same thing as hardship or trials. Or am I interpreting it wrong? I thought that verse was encouraging us in our battles of the flesh, that no temptation will be so strong that can’t avoid succumbing to sin.
The statement referred to in the post is, in my experience, used by people talking about trials and hardships out of our control.
I’m so sorry about the loss of your wife. I’m also sorry about the loss of your retirement, but the loss of you life companion had to have left you shell shocked. I’m very sorry.
“How much you can handle” is a very difficult line to draw. God knows “how much you can handle”, but neither you nor I nor the neighbor who tells you this can really say how much that is, can we?
God allows things to happen to us. The book of Job is the ultimate example of this. Job finally had “all he could take”, as it were, and got angry, asking God lots of questions that basically amounted to “That’s not fair!”, or “Why me?” Then God straightened him out by asking Job a series of rhetorical questions which pretty much could be summed up by “Who do you think you are, to question Almighty God?”
In my view, God allows us to face more than we can handle quite often - so we will turn to HIM for help.
I much prefer the more theologically sound, “Nothing can touch you without first, God allows it.” And He will NEVER forsake his children. He will be there when you turn to Him.
Psalm 121
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
But satan does.
Well something kills every one of us so that’s more than we can handle. I think the saying would be accurate if it went, “God never gives you more than He can handle.”
There is another saying that goes “God won’t give you more than you and He can handle together.”
The whole notion gets into the difference between God’s perfect will and His permissible will.
I do not believe God sends people trouble or persecution.
Indeed. I agree with you that the verse is about TEMPTATION, and not the miseries of disease and death. However, it would seem that many popular proverbs have arisen that people THINK is Scripture but isn’t.
I remember as a child, seeing a poster in the window of a Christian Science Reading Room that said:
JESUS SAID IT IS BETTER TO LIGHT ONE CANDLE THAN TO CURSE THE DARKNESS.
Years later, while studying the Bible, i found out that Jesus never said that at all.
But it sure looked good on a poster.
Bovine excrement! Mierde del torro!
This quote is a brush off to someone in trouble. It is used at the most inappropriate moments.
Once, a pastor had said that to me and my instant reaction was "why are you cursing me? get thee behind me satan" and I just walked away without saying a word. He probably thought I rejected God by doing that but I had rejected the pastor.
Later I read the scripture this was paraphrased from and it refers to addictions and self imposed stuff when one is going through withdrawal symptoms when trying to get clean. That, was not my problem.
Satan THINKS he can tempt us beyond our control.
He even thought he could tempt Jesus. Three Times!
The line that makes me cringe is “If God doesn’t feel close to you, who moved?”
It is the cruelest comment one can make to another who is experiencing a period of God’s silence, yet knows he is seeking God with his whole heart.That long dark night of the soul is difficult enough without being blamed for it, and in such a flippant manner. But I know I will see that cruel quote on a church sign again and again.
Thanks for that clarification!
I’m not feeling well today and i’m probably scanning rather than READING.
BTW, I love Dennis Prager.
Yep. Church Bulletin Boards can be pretty heinous.
I’m stunned that so many Christians would give immediate answers that indicate the only ‘self’ they know is their body and emotions!
Or wish you were dead and didn’t have to deal with things anymore.
Life is hard. Sometimes just too much so to bear.
[[God never gives you more than you can handle...]]
The bible never states that... and infact many Christians do infact get more than they can handle and take their own lives-
Rick Warren’s son was one- Obviously these people had more than they could handle
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet He did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. --Hebrews 4:14-16
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