Your circumstances may be hard, and they may not be what you want. God brings you into circumstances that are beyond your ability to endure so that you might not rely on yourself but on him.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada. And after so many years of quadriplegia, there are many days I still wake up and think to myself, “Oh, God, I don’t have the strength for this. I can’t do this. God, I feel like you’re asking too much of me.” I know the apostle Paul felt the same way when he wrote about his hardships. He says in 2 Corinthians that, “We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life.” In other words, he was saying, “Man, I’d rather die than face all this.” But the next verse says that all these awful, terrible things happen so that “We might not rely on ourselves but on God.” Oh, friend, there’s our answer. It may be hard and it may not be what we want, but God brings us into circumstances that are far beyond our ability to endure so that we might not rely on ourselves, but on him.
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