To The Weary
Yesterday I was talking with a friend and he was telling me about a friend of his whose struggles seemed funny to us because in terms of what we’d been through, hers seemed like a walk in the park and not the valley of the shadow of darkness. I had a similar conversation with Sharon on Sunday and I’ve been pondering eversince on why people’s struggles are different yet the reality that it is a struggle is the same to all. The truth is whether seemingly big or small, to the person going through it, it is actually very real. Being in a relationship has made me learn more about acknowledging people’s struggles and seeing them as their struggles and not mine so I won’t expect them to act the way I would.
My point is this, the level of pain a child feels when he or she loses a toy is almost or even equal to the pain of an adult losing a loved one. Each person at his or her level feels a great deal of pain. For the adult, it may seem like the pain of the child is irrelevant but to that child the pain is real. While I was pondering on these things, I heard “God doesn’t give us more than we can bear" in my spirit so my mind just went to 1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
I Corinthians 10:13 NKJV
I did a little bit of digging and realised that Paul is not saying here that God has left us to be dependent on our strength to overcome challenges for that same verse says that God will make the way of escape that we may be able to bear it. So it is God who gives us the grace to face these temptations and challenge. To connect it to my thought, it means that when we go through these tough times that tempt us to fall into unbelief or some other type of sin, the grace to overcome it has already been supplied and the question is not whether we can or cannot overcome it. The question is whether we will or will not overcome it, because grace needed has been supplied. 2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
II Corinthians 9:8 NKJV
I guess the summary of my musings is that the struggle however big or small it may seem is very real to the one who struggles. Fundamentally, we all go through the same struggle, just in different forms and that struggle is to obey God or disobey Him. However, God expects us to bear it because He has supplied us the grace to do so. If we couldn’t bear it, He wouldn’t let it.
So to the one who thinks he stands, be careful you might just fall too and to the one who struggles do not be weary for in good time you will reap (Galatians 6:9)
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
Galatians 6:9 NKJV
Don’t give up.
God’s grace is sufficient and that challenge isn’t more than you can bear.
You might not see it yet but He has made a way.
Until next time,
Focus Kore.
