Strength Training

"The final straw", "when it rains it pours".... I think there's reason that we have so many expressions that more or less say the same thing. We've all experienced this in our lives. We are at a point when we seem to be dealing with more than we can handle, then there's something else.

Work, school, family, finances all overwhelming us and then the car breaks down. It's more than we can handle and it keeps just piling on. We're ready to collapse under the weight of it all.

Strangely this reminds me of what we do to try and get stronger. If we go to the gym we add more and more weight  always trying to lift a little more. We put on the weight we can handle, then we add a little more. This is not an attempt to beat us down, it is to build us up.

When our burdens are more than we can bear it is God pushing our faith to be stronger and to carry more.