A popular song a few years back sings, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Sometimes when I’m going through tough stuff, I sing that line to myself. Maybe you’ve caught yourself doing the same thing. But after reading Scripture and thinking about times when I didn’t grow from an experience, I started to rethink the concept.
I looked up the background, and discovered the quote was first coined by German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche. His exact wording: “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” To see if he speaks truth, we have to check it with the truth of the Bible, and also the truth of Christian experience.
I surveyed my Facebook friends to see if they agreed with the concept, and they all had different views.