Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, February 3rd.

God promises that his followers will have enough grace to carry any burden he allows.

Stay with us to learn how to live with life's loads.

There are some loads that God allows in the human life that all the praying and all the fasting and all the pleading and all the begging in the world will never force God's hand to remove that load.

There are some things God will not remove.

There are some loads that he has no intention of removing.

And what we have to distinguish is, what is it that God is willing to remove and what is that he's not willing to remove?

What is the purpose of God by allowing us to walk through life with some loads that seem to be heavier, then we ought to have to bear.

And sometimes we tell God it's not fair.

It's not just.

Look at him.

Look at her.

They don't have to bear things like that.

And I don't know what the circumstance is in your life today, but this I'm sure, that many of you have already come to the place in your life where you've said,

if there is a God, he wouldn't put up with this. If there's a God of love, he'd release me from

this. If there were a God of kindness and mercy like you Christians talk about, God wouldn't

allow me to go through this. You're telling me that for the rest of my life, this is the way I've

got to live. You mean my circumstances won't ever change. You mean that God says this is my

circumstance for the rest of my life. And this is the way I'm to look at life. And this is the way I'm

to suffer. You mean he won't change my physical situation. You mean the emotions that I'm facing right now, the situation that I'm in, that I can't believe that God's going to change it if I pray.

You mean to tell me that some things God's going to force me to live under the rest of my life?

Yep, that's what I'm telling you, because it's the truth.

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