God Won’t Give You More Than You Can Handle?

Hi! Welcome back to my blog! Today I am gonna be talking about the cliche phrase that many Christians use and think it is actually true. The phrase “God won’t give you more than you can handle” is way overused and also false, and here is why.

This phrase is used mostly to be encouraging and uplifting to a friend or family member who is going through a hard time. But, in reality this phrase is never in the Bible, not once. This phrase can be a misquotation of 1 Corinthians 10:13 “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

So now that we know it’s a misquotation, let’s get one thing straight; God does give you more than you can handle! God gives me more than I can handle everyday! Let’s take Moses for instance, asking Moses to free the Israelites from Pharaoh, that was definitely more than Moses could handle! Do you really think that without God, Moses could have freed the Israelites and parted the red sea? Yeah, no. Although God certainly gave Moses more than he could handle he was still able to free the slaves because God was with him and helping him through the whole entire thing. So yes, God actually does gives me more than I can handle. But I know that he is always with me and with His help I can handle it.

Thanks for reading! New blog post will be up on Monday!

P.S, I cant believe that school starts on Monday!

“ I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”-Philippians 4:13