The Captain of My Soul

Eric Stonestreet: God will give you plenty more than you can handle. He'll just give you things that will make you despair of life, he says. That's what Paul ends up going to at the very conclusion of verse nine. Why did all of this take place so that even they would get beyond their own strength, burden me on their own strength? "That was to make us rely not on ourselves, but on God who raises the raises the debt"