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b'Maybe you\\u2019ve heard the saying: God will never give us more than we can\\nhandle. I\\u2019d never thought much about that idea until I found myself in\\nGuatemala, begging God not to let both of my grandparents pass away while I\\nwas gone.\\n.\\nMy grammy had been sick when I left for my semester abroad, and I\\u2019d said a\\ndifferent kind of goodbye to her. But now my pop-pop had cancer too? How\\ncould this be happening?\\n.\\n\\u201cThis is too much!\\u201d I cried out to God. \\u201cIt\\u2019s more than I can handle.\\u201d\\nIn that moment, God\\u2019s peace surrounded me like a hug. And I knew that even\\nif it was too much for me to handle, I wouldn\\u2019t go through it alone. He was\\nwith me. My focus had been on trying to cope with the pain on my own, but\\ninstead, I had to surrender my suffering to God.\\n.\\nThe truth is, God never promises not to give us more than we can handle. In\\nfact, before Jesus went to the cross, He told His disciples, \\u201cIn this world\\nyou will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world\\u201d (John\\n16:33). And after Jesus rose from the dead, He told them, \\u201cI am with you\\nalways\\u201d (Matthew 28:20). It is the strength of Jesus that allows us to\\ncontinue forward through a broken world, not our own strength.\\n.\\nI also think of Paul, who endured an immense amount of suffering to share\\nthe gospel (the good news about Jesus). Paul was imprisoned, flogged,\\nbeaten, shipwrecked, endangered, and the list goes on. Paul didn\\u2019t handle\\nall this by his own strength. Paul depended on God.\\n.\\nSo even when the worst happens\\u2014when the mountains fall and the earth gives\\nway, when we\\u2019re afraid of losing someone we love, when life just isn\\u2019t\\ngoing the way we expected\\u2014we don\\u2019t have to worry about our own ability to\\nhandle it. God is our strength, and God is with us, always. \\u2022 Becca\\nWierwille\\n.\\n\\u2022 Can you think of a time you felt like God was giving you more than you\\ncould handle? How did that impact your relationship with Him?\\n.\\n\\u2022 Read 1 Corinthians 10:13. How is this verse different from the phrase,\\nGod won\\u2019t give us more than we can handle? What would be a more helpful\\nsaying to tell people who are going through difficult things?\\n.\\n\\u201cI [Jesus] have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In\\nthis world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the\\nworld.\\u201d John 16:33 (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nPs.46.1-Ps.46.3|John.16.16-John.16.33|2Cor.11.16-2Cor.11.33'