In recent years, I have struggled to have faith in my ability to overcome life’s challenges. I see so many people fail that I have been emotionally convinced that my time will come as well. By failure, what I mean is the experience of burden beyond what I can handle. I have failed many times and each time, it has not broken me. But as I said, *emotionally* I feel certain that one day I will fail. I keep saying emotionally because intellectually, I am convinced of something else. ![[1 Cor 10#13]] The meaning of the above verse for me is two folds 1. No challenge in my life will ever be too great a burden to me. 2. There is always a way forward in those challenges, not necessarily to “win” the challenges, but rather a guarantee that my shoulders will be strong enough to carry the load. So whenever my emotion tells me to be afraid of what is before me in life, I respond to it with this verse. But boy is my emotion loud and unyielding. But so am I.