A Big Question

[Wascally Wabbit]

"God will never give you more than you can bear"
I hear this over and over.
So, does this mean that He gives you all the grief and dispair, and expect you to handle it just because He's God? Is He the cause of our grief? The author of our insanity?


Perhaps He doesn't give us more than we can bear, but our relatives, sons and daughters most certianly do. Add that to the fact that we, codependants, users, alchoholics, and the like all pile troubles and grief upon ourselves. Not Him. We can't blame Him for what we do, or for what others do.

He says His burden is light.
We make life heavy.

If His burden is light, then it's not too much to bear. We need to give our self made burdens to Him because we just can't bear them alone.
Give Him everything. Lay it at His feet. The burden lifts and we live again, have life, and have it more abundantly.

[cmc]

WW,
Thanks for sharing. You have given me much to think about with your post.

Maybe another meaning for burden could be the result of our sinful nature and/or our actual sins.

Two verses come to mind from Galatians 6:2 "....bear ye one another's burdens..."
and 6:5 "...every man shall bear his own burden..."

This is very interesting and to me means that we will suffer from our own actions and are responsible for what we do. Although we 'own' many of our problems, it's nice to have friends who share in our troubles and provide comfort and help in hard times.

Jesus said his "yoke is easy and his burden is light." (Matt. 11:30)

We all have sad feelings and maybe the difference in how we are to carry these 'burdens' is in how we choose to react to them. I can choose to remain in my grief and sadness or rejoice in the goodness of God and learn to accept or change what is perceived as my burden. When oxen are yoked, they must follow whoever has the reigns...and trust and obey the will of the driver. Maybe this is what He meant by 'my yoke is easy'....meaning 'simple' like simple faith in His goodness.

[best]

My grace is sufficient.

Having been in a situation that gave me more pain then I have ever known before and feeling the Lord's peace fill me, even in my pain... I found understanding of a few things.
Peace that transends all understanding... I started to find out just what that peace truly is.
I also found that the more I would hurt, the more the Lord poured out His grace on me.
I started to find understanding of how Stephen was able to find peace and joy as he was being stoned to death. I can't fully know such things but I can know them to the degree I have lived them.
End result that I have found... A faith and trust that no matter what life throws at me...Jesus will be with me and filling me with His grace as needed...even unto death if needed.

A heavy yoke and He will always carry the major portion (if I let Him)