I’ve heard it said a million times that “God won’t give you more than you can handle!”.

I was reading my journal from this year and I came across something I wrote back in the spring as we were waiting to hear from the first lawyer whether we were going to be chosen, or not.

I was already a little worried about the possibility of my children being just over 2 years apart and I wrote, “If God knows I can’t handle two children two years apart, we won’t be chosen.”

Well, here I am.

The mother of two girls born two years apart.

God must have known that I could handle this, right?

Wrong!!

In fact, the complete opposite is true…

God gives us more than we can handle on our own so that we turn to HIM for strength!

What would the point be in trusting God if we could handle everything on our own strength?

In my own strength, I cannot handle raising my two daughters.

It is beyond my capabilities.

I need more.

I need Jesus and the strength, love, joy and patience HE has to offer.

So, I do not agree with that statement at all.

To say that God does not give us more than we can handle means that we are capable of doing life in our own strength!

We wouldn’t need God, then, would we?

But if life’s circumstances land us in a place where we need more that we can find within ourselves to make it through, we turn to God and trust in HIM to get us through and give us what we need during those trying times.

I’m definitely in that place right now and it is a good place to be.

Within myself I cannot find all that my husband and my daughters need me to be.

And so I turn to my Lord asking Him daily to give me what I need.

- Elaine