Do you think God has a strength scale? Like let’s just say it’s 1 to 100. I think we all have a timeline that is handcrafted by God the moment we are conceived. All of our mountains and peaks and valleys and plateaus are created and we all will get to them eventually, it’s all just a matter of when. But do you think He also gives us an amount of strength right from the get go? Like He has a “strength scale”? He sees the timeline He has created for us and then says “well Josie needs 80 of strength to get through her timeline”. Meaning I’ll have moments that less amount of strength is needed but I should be able to get through the worst with 80 points or decimals or whatever of strength? Or do you think we are each given the same amount of strength right from the get go and all the hard moments in life just happen to equal the total of 100? For example, losing a leg for me required 30 points of strength, almost dying a second time another 10. And then one day when my end is near, all my strength will be tallied up and it’s likely to hit the amount granted of 100 because God already set our peaks and valleys ahead of time and knew how much strength would be required to get through each of the hard moments of life.

I know. I know. You’re probably thinking that Josie thinks about weird stuff. But in reality, I think about life stuff. I have a friend who lost her leg to cancer a couple months ago and now has a couple spots on her lungs. Thankfully they caught it early and her doctor is very hopeful with their treatment plan, but come on. I know we have no say in the hard stuff life throws at us, but it’s times like this I really wish we did. Like if it had to happen, ok. But back to back? How does one even have enough strength to get through that? We don’t. Not one person can single handedly have enough strength to get through all of the stuff that is thrown our way. So that’s why I think both of my strength scales I proposed before is wrong.

Yes. I do think God grants us a certain amount of strength the day we are conceived. Each of us. All the same amount. However some of us will hit that amount the first couple hours or days of life. Some of us will use the majority in a single years time. And some of us will be lucky enough to roll some over when we meet our Maker. But the beauty of this situation is that strength can be transferred. And what’s even better is that God has infinite amount of strength. And once we hit our limit and need someone to lean on to help get us through, God always has a shoulder to cry on and enough strength for any size mountain. We just have to make the decision to let someone else help us be strong. Because we never know when the next time more strength is required and how much is needed.

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