Far Beyond Our Ability To Endure

If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

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.

2 Corinthians 1:6-11

When we grieve it just seems too much to handle. God’s care and comfort is there for us, when we feel we can go no further.

We cannot trust ourselves to be able to handle every situation in life. God can handle those situations. He raises the dead. He knows when we are exhausted. Let God work through you and take charge of your life.

He showed us His power with the resurrection. He will demonstrate His power again when He raises believing loved ones of all generations to eternal life. That is the truth we all need as we travel the journey God has for us.

The storms of life remind us to take shelter in the loving arms of our Savior.

Our Daily Bread – April 13, 2012