Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Job 1:6-12
by: Kennedy Ochs.
These verses are always hard for me to read. Job had done all the right things and he was still chosen to go through incredible hardship. It does not seem fair. We often hear that, “God will not give us more than we can handle.” But, I think, in reality, God often does give us much more than we can handle...and then He helps us to handle it. He does this to encourage our dependence on Him. Within those seasons where we are tempted and where we are pushed past our breaking points is the space for unreserved reliance on God because He is all we have left and all we need. He gives us what we can handle only through trusting His power and righteousness.