I will walk again.

Now, don't go getting all worried that I am laid up and immobile, that is not the case. Besides a little bit of a cold, I am feeling just fine.

Yet, as I look back on the last few months since the beginning of the year, it is hard for me to see anywhere that I have been walking on my own two feet, but it is Christ who has been carrying me through it all. 2013 has started off more crazy and random than I could have ever imagined.

There is a phrase that tends to go around when someone has a lot happening in their lives; God never gives you more than you can handle. I'm guilty as charged as I have said this to myself time and time before. What I didn't realize is that phrase is NOT supported Biblically. Go ahead, try and find a passage of scripture that will support it; I'll check back with you in a few years and see how you are doing with the search because you will still be looking. Actually, scripture tells us the exact opposite about the trials of life that we may face at any given time.

"We do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia; for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself. Indeed we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead." 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 (NRSV) (my emphasis added)

We all go through times in life that we want to take matters into our own hands and work things out. That is the worst thing that we could do! During the times of struggle, we MUST rely on our Heavenly Father all the more to help us through the valleys of life.