weight of cares

Someone shared this with me the other day.

The weight of the cares that are laid on us is meticulously measured by the one who "knows our frame" and "knows full well that we are dust." (Ps 103:14) Not a hair's weight more than we can sustain will be added to the load, but a load there must be for each of us, for we are in training. -Elisabeth Elliot

I admit, it often feels that God's forgotten we are like dust. The load feels too big or over-whelming.  Grateful that even though I often fail to trust God's promises, He never fails to hear my prayers. His promises are always true. 

"that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of our hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which He has called you, what are the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of His great might..." Eph 1:17-19

"Fear lies at the unexamined core of who we are. Faith grows from the surpassing of fear in spite of its presence. It is not a denial of fear, but rather itself, acknowledges the fear and in fact uses it to engulf the fear itself, transforming it into th emost powerful, rather than debilitating force there is: love." -Surprised by Oxford