Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time. Half Truth Week 5:
“God won’t give you more than

you can handle.”

Dear brothers and sisters,
This is the fifth and final week of our series Half-Truth. In this series, we’ve been confronting several popular half-truths in our culture when it comes to faith and religion. To close out the series, today we will confront the popular saying: “God will not give us more than we can handle.” This is true if we mean that God always provides his love and grace; and that God is in control of the world. It is also true to say this, if we mean that God will always be with us. The whole truth, however, is that God often gives us more than we can handle. He does so for a few reasons: so that we will return to his presence, depend on his power, and grow in our faith and trust in him.