OVER YOUR HEAD

Well hello there!

How have you been? How's February looking for you so far?

Welcome to today's gist. 

Have you ever heard that God doesn't give you more than you can handle? 

Let me just burst the bubble, He does! In fact, it might just be that one of God's favourite things to do is to give us more than we can handle: more fame than we need, more money than we can handle, more relationships than we can handle, more everything than we can handle. Of course it's easy to quote 1 Corinthians 10:13, but here's what that verse says "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it." (KJV) So what it says about us not having more than we can handle is in regards to temptations, it doesn't say that life won't happen to us more than we can handle. Why is that the case?

I read somewhere that if God only gives us what we can handle, then we will begin to feel self sufficient, almost superhuman –like we don't need Him or we can survive on our own, but that's untrue, we can't live on our own without God, and that's what these "more than we can handle" situations do for us: they have the effect of making us reliant on God, as we very well should be. In the midst of situations where we're "in over our heads", God's always there, ready to give us all that we need to overcome the situation and thrive while we're at it. These situations are an invitation from God to us to unlock new levels in our relationship with Him.

Unfortunately, it is mostly when we're in these situations that we begin to look at other things or people, rather than at God who is actually the only Ticket we have out of that situation. It becomes easy for the devil to deceive us that God either doesn't want to or cannot bring us out of the situation, and we forget, or choose to ignore the fact, that God who used the words of His mouth to create the world, definitely has power to help us. So we ignore His invitation and go about seeking to settle issues that we know are way over our heads through man made means, and it won't ever work. 

121 Selah sang in their song Shoe Maker, "I no go carry matter of heart go give a human oh! Cause e no sabi di work at all". But that's what we do most times, carry the work go give who no sabi. And that's why my encouragement to you today is this: every time you are faced with situations that are bigger than you, which would be very often if you're someone like me, accept God's invitation to intimacy and lean on Him –Him sabi di work well well!

I hope my my words made sense to you and that you apply them. May February be blissful for us all.

See you next week!

Love, 

Achenyo.