It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way
by
Lysa TerKeurst
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We begin the podcast this week with Chapter 8: “When God Gives You More Than You Can Handle.” We’ve all heard the cliché: “God doesn’t give us more than we can handle.” But He does! As Lysa TerKeurst says, “God doesn’t want us to rally more of our own strength. He wants us to rely solely on His strength.” He gives us more than we can handle so we will turn to Him. The good news is, He can handle it.
In the next chapter, we talk about letting go of what’s holding us back. We all have moments of weakness, but “weak moments don’t make weak faith.” Our weaknesses clue us in to our untended wounds. Don’t beat yourself up over them, but don’t ignore them either. We also all probably have a little unforgiveness. Or a lot. We think we’ve forgiven someone and then we start assigning labels to them: uncaring, irresponsible, cold-hearted. This is not an indication that you’re not healing but that you’re human and still have some things that need to be resolved.
Change of Perspective
The most difficult truth to grasp is that God allows us to suffer for His own purposes. Your suffering may not be a consequence of sin or anything you’ve done. You may simply be chosen by God for suffering. It may seem unfair and cruel. But if you turn your eyes to God, He’ll change your perspective. You still may not know the reason or purpose for it, but you’ll begin to see the beauty and blessings in it. “When you’re chosen for suffering, you’re chosen for the blessing of displaying the works of God.”
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In the epilogue, TerKeurst concludes: “We trust a God who allows hurt . . . Being hurt isn’t the worst thing in the world. It’s actually the very thing that makes us closer to Jesus and closer to our fellow humans.”
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
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