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God says he will not give us more than we can handle. Why do some people go through so much more than others for such long periods of time? Doesn’t twelve years of nonstop family, health, business issues - various extreme difficulties with only brief moments of peace sound like a lot? Keeping in mind this a prayerful person. Just curious.
 
God makes the sun to shine on the good and bad. If he didn’t everybody would be
flocking to one side for the wrong reasons.
 
Lil_Lone_Sheep said:
God says he will not give us more than we can handle. Why do some people go through so much more than others for such long periods of time? Doesn’t twelve years of nonstop family, health, business issues - various extreme difficulties with only brief moments of peace sound like a lot? Keeping in mind this a prayerful person. Just curious.
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Perhaps God is giving this person the chance to shine. People will only notice a light when it’s surrounded by darkness. On the question of length of time… Moss wondered for 40 years in a horrible land. In the end, he wasn’t allowed to enter the promised land. He too was prayerful.
 
Thank you for the kind replies.
However, it’s difficult to shine or do anything after almost fifteen years. I would have thought God would have answered the pleas of -this is all that can be handled 3-5 years ago. Not watch everything be wiped out and become worse and then even worse… If there were no faith - maybe I would understand better. Sometimes God allows more in order for us to find or seek Him, but this has never been the case. Oh, well.

God Bless
 
Lil_Lone_Sheep said:
God says he will not give us more than we can handle. Why do some people go through so much more than others for such long periods of time? Doesn’t twelve years of nonstop family, health, business issues - various extreme difficulties with only brief moments of peace sound like a lot? Keeping in mind this a prayerful person. Just curious.
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That adage is not true and I don’t really believe it. You have to ask yourself the simple question - “if God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, why do some people commit suicide?” After all, people who commit suicide commit it because the pain they experience exceeds the resources they have of being able to cope with that pain. Another question you have is, “what is the source of the adage?” From what I’ve read, the Bible doesn’t say anything of the sort. Perhaps some saint, or famous person may have said it, but saints and famous people aren’t infallible - they may/may not even be intelligent.

It’s mere sophistry and intellectual dishonesty to attempt to justify the error of that silly adage.
 
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That adage is not true and I don’t really believe it. You have to ask yourself the simple question - “if God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, why do some people commit suicide?” After all, people who commit suicide commit it because the pain they experience exceeds the resources they have of being able to cope with that pain. Another question you have is, “what is the source of the adage?” From what I’ve read, the Bible doesn’t say anything of the sort. Perhaps some saint, or famous person may have said it, but saints and famous people aren’t infallible - they may/may not even be intelligent.

It’s mere sophistry and intellectual dishonesty to attempt to justify the error of that silly adage.
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You can handle it, but not alone. You need to ask for the help of other people, the angels, and God Himself.
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
That adage is not true and I don’t really believe it. You have to ask yourself the simple question - “if God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, why do some people commit suicide?” After all, people who commit suicide commit it because the pain they experience exceeds the resources they have of being able to cope with that pain. Another question you have is, “what is the source of the adage?” From what I’ve read, the Bible doesn’t say anything of the sort. Perhaps some saint, or famous person may have said it, but saints and famous people aren’t infallible - they may/may not even be intelligent.

It’s mere sophistry and intellectual dishonesty to attempt to justify the error of that silly adage.
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I tend to agree. It is really a word game, if you break it down. If you can handle any hardship from stubbing a toe to experiencing a torturous death, then sure, you’re not going to get anything you can’t handle.

To the OP, I have been dealt blows in life that ended my career and my ability to make money to raise my family. I don’t understand why it had to happen this way, but I know this: spiritually, emotionally, and socially, I’ve learned so much during this time of hardship it has had a profound effect on the way I look at everything from clouds in the sky to politics. I would love to be able to control my own situation a little better, because frankly I’m pretty tired of living like I do, nothing like the way I was raised or envision raising my own kids.

When Jesus said He gives us His peace, not as the world gives, I think of two aspects of that. The peace the world can give (by giving us comfortable situations and environment) is temporary and by definition, conditional. The peace Jesus came to give is eternal and unconditional. It can be hard to accept bad conditions, but they can’t take away the peace that Jesus gave us.

Alan
 
Lil_Lone_Sheep said:
God says he will not give us more than we can handle. Why do some people go through so much more than others for such long periods of time? Doesn’t twelve years of nonstop family, health, business issues - various extreme difficulties with only brief moments of peace sound like a lot? Keeping in mind this a prayerful person. Just curious.
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I think Our Lord is hungry for people who are willing to help Him carry His cross. Therefore, those prayerful people who are particularly close to our Lord are usually the ones who are willing to help Him.

Look at suffering as an opportunity to free souls from purgatory. This is why God allows us to suffer. Padre Pio said ***“Suffering is a gift from God. Blessed is he who knows how to profit by it”. ***

Lastly, I once heard a parable about a man who was so disgusted and sick of his cross that he asked permission to trade it for another. He felt like he couldn’t bear it any longer. When he was given permission to trade it in, he was surprisingly disappointed and dismayed because his new cross was even heavier!

In other words, since we all have to carry our cross, trust in the Lord that the cross He’s given to you is the best fit for you and will most easily gain you your salvation.
 
Bohm_Bawerk said:
That adage is not true and I don’t really believe it. You have to ask yourself the simple question - “if God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, why do some people commit suicide?” After all, people who commit suicide commit it because the pain they experience exceeds the resources they have of being able to cope with that pain. Another question you have is, “what is the source of the adage?” From what I’ve read, the Bible doesn’t say anything of the sort. Perhaps some saint, or famous person may have said it, but saints and famous people aren’t infallible - they may/may not even be intelligent.

It’s mere sophistry and intellectual dishonesty to attempt to justify the error of that silly adage.
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People who commit suicide have given into despair (the sin of satan). If they would turn to God for help instead of choosing to turn away from God, they WOULD find the strength to bear their burdens. This is why you usually don’t see devout people committing suicide.
 
RosaryFan said:
People who commit suicide have given into despair (the sin of satan). If they would turn to God for help instead of choosing to turn away from God, they WOULD find the strength to bear their burdens. This is why you usually don’t see devout people committing suicide.
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Not true. The sin of despair doesn’t refer to those who “despair” in the context of suicide. It refers to those who commit a sin and believe their sin is greater than God’s mercy. It’s one form of “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 12:31) and is regarded as being evident in the case of Judas, who hanged himself after acknowledging what he had done. Hence why some theologians speculate Judas is in Hell based on Jesus alluding to Judas as the “son of perdition” (John 17:12).

The Church teaches that suicide is a sin because we don’t own our lives; on the contrary, God has entrusted our lives to us. This simple fact explains quite quickly why abortion, euthanasia, unjust wars, self-inflicted harm and other actions against the dignity and existence of human life are all sins within specified parameters. From what I have read and understood, the Church doesn’t really condemn suicide because of the element of despair (in the secular sense of the word) involved.

I don’t really buy into the claim that we don’t see devout people committing suicide. Of course, the statement is synthetically true such as “all triangles have three sides” - someone who commits suicide has gone against a doctrine of the Church, and thus loses the badge of being “devout”. But many people and I would consider devout in a much broader sense, which explains why Christians can and do commit suicide.
 
Not true.
God always gives us more than we can handle. It shows us how weak we are by ourselves, it brings people who may never ever pray to try it for once, lol, it stretches our capacity for loving others. It likely does a bunch of other things too, like softening a hardened heart.

If you admire someone who seems to ‘have it easy’, you don’t know what God will ask of them tomorrow. It could make you shiver if you knew!
 
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