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Don't invite Ken Green to your pity party

Before I sat down to write this, I really believed that there is a verse in the Bible in which God promises not to give any of us more than we can handle.
But it ain't there.
Believe me, I looked.

The verse that confused me and probably a lot of others is I Corinathians: 10:13
It says: "No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, that you may be able to endure it"

Nowhere in there do you find that the Lord "takes a knee" for us.
Don't believe me. Go ask Job.

The reason I am saying this is Ken Green.
If you don't closely follow the PGA Tour , you probably have not heard of him, but Green was a pretty good player back in the 1980's.
He won five PGA events between 1985 and 1989 and played on the U.S. Ryder Cup team in 1989. He won $3.7 million in his PGA career and had 44 top 10 finishes. When he turned 50, he played a year on the Champions Tour and did pretty well.

But if you ever have a personal pity party, thinking about how bad your own life is, just think about Ken Green.

During his PGA career, he suffered big-time depression. He said he sometimes heard children's voices in his head. He cotemplated suicide.

Then in June of last year, he was traveling in the back of an RV driven by his brother.
A tire blew out. The RV went off the road, down an embankment and crashed into a large tree.
Green's brother and girlfriend died in the accident.
Green's lower right leg had to be amputated.

Then last week, Green's youngest son , 21-year-old Hunter Green, was found dead in his dorm room at SMU.
Parents aren't supposed to bury their kids.

All that in just eight months.

So don't try telling Ken Green that God has promised not to give his more than we can handle.
He has learned that's not true the hard way.

Posted by Nick Gholson at 8:17 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)