I give you my world, the whole world. Its hard to admit we re cracked. We try to live by our own self-sufficiency and carry weights in life that God never intended for us to carry. Paul gives four examples of things that often crack us - weights we are tempted to carry by our own strength. The car breaks down on Monday morning.
Company comes for dinner - on the wrong night.
Sickness strikes your family - heartbreaks come. Doubts - decisions to be made and not knowing which way to turn. Anxieties, worries and uncertainties. Being badly hurt - terrible episodes which shatter a family or an individual and leave us frightened or baffled. For the Christian - these things do not have victory over us.