I heard someone speaking about pain, suffering, and challenges in life today. He said that just when you think you’ve reached the point where you can’t take it, you find a point just beyond that. It was a statement I could relate to very well. I thought I knew my limits on fear and pain. I knew what I could take and then I started to have anxiety attacks and migraine headaches.
I started to experience levels of fear and pain that felt like I couldn’t take it. I literally felt sometimes that if it kept going, I was either going to faint or die. In those moments, I learned God’s grace. He knows my limits; I don’t. He is never going to let me experience more than I can handle. In that moment, when I didn’t think I could stand it anymore, I found that God would hold me up until I could hold myself up. That fall that I was expecting to happen didn’t come because God knows the plan better than I do. As I sat crying because of the fear and pain, I knew that God wasn’t going to let me fall. He wasn’t going to abandon me. I could depend on Him to get me through the next second and then the next minute, then next hour, and so on.
I may face the absolute worst struggles in life. I might have the worst evils done to me, but I know in my heart that He won’t abandon me. At that point when I don’t think I can take it anymore, I know that I can go one step beyond and fall into the loving arms of my Lord and Savior.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
