It's Too Heavy!

All I asked him to do was bring me the basket of clothes. Not an impossible task, right? It took him forever! I became increasingly impatient so I yelled and said “Today, please!!!” Finally, he slowly came around the corner with a look of defeat on his face, without said basket and muttered the words “Mom I tried to bring it, but it’s too heavy. Can you help me?” I looked at him with a bit of frustration because he couldn’t do that one simple thing I asked of him. I quickly walked to the back and grabbed the other end of the basket and helped him bring it to its’ desired location.  Mission accomplished (even if I did have to help get it done.) I went on with my busy day trying to complete the things on my To-Do-List.  It wasn’t until later on, much later really, that I had time to reflect on what actually happened between my son and I earlier. I must admit that I was convicted about how I reacted to him when he told me the basket was too heavy. I guess I could have handled it a lot better than I did. I processed the whole situation as I tried to wind down at the end of the day and this is what I came up with:

1. I asked him to carry something that he wasn’t built for him to carry. It was too much for him.
2. He didn’t have the strength on his own to handle it.
3. The only way he could possibly accomplish the task was if I helped him do it.

Could there possibly be life application to this? Of course! Let’s look at it.

1. God sometimes calls us to do a task for Him, greater than we can accomplish.
2. In our own strength we can’t handle it.
3. He sets us up to do something that is much bigger than we are and that can ONLY be accomplished with His help.

What has He asked you to do? Know that God hears us when we say to Him “It’s too heavy (too much, too challenging, too big)”. He was actually waiting on us to realize that. Then He responds to us by saying "Trust me as I work through you to accomplish it."

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~ And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 Corinthians 12:9