"I know God won't give me more than I can handle, I just wish He didn't trust me so much".
And over the past couple weeks I have been learning that this is not true.
2 Corinthians 1:8-11 says this: "We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many".
This goes to show that God does put us through trial sometimes and that sometimes He will give us more than we can handle just so that we come to realize once again that we need Him. We cannot do these things on our own.
I also learnt something in my Education class the other day that has really got me thinking. My prof said something like; Jesus has saved us from the ultimate penalty of sin, which is death, but because we still live in a sinful world, while we are here on earth we are still held responsible for our actions and that God does punish us and discipline us for our sins. This may not be a new idea to most of you, but it was to me. I thought that since God had saved me I could basically do whatever and be forgiven for it, and while this is true it does not mean that there are no consequences for my actions.
This really helped me to see God as a father figure and instill the fear of God in me. He doesn't want to have to punish us but as His children we still have much to learn and we have to be taught, sometimes through hard lessons. He is shaping us into who we ought to be, through the struggle and hardships He is stretching our faith and teaching us to be more like Him.
