And the law of the rubber band, basically, you know, growth stops when you lose the
tension between where you're at and where you could be. And the concept there
is that a rubber band is only good and is only fulfilling its purpose when it's
being stretched. Is that kind of the concept? It reminds me of just the
apostles staying in Jerusalem. Yeah, exactly. They didn't want to venture out. Yeah, and here's the thing, the
Apostle Paul stretched himself even above measure, the Bible says, right? I
think it literally says that. Doesn't it literally say stretch? Doesn't it say that? I think
pressed. Pressed out above measure. And we can say that he was stretched beyond
what his typical capacity was, and didn't he go a lot further, not only spiritually
but regionally as well? He was pushed to his limit. Yeah, he pushed himself to his
limit, beyond his limit, and because of that he not only went further regionally
as far as, like, literally geographically speaking, but even spiritually speaking
he was given more revelation by God, you know? He was able to reach more people
for Christ because he got outside of his comfort zone. That's a good point, and I
think ultimately as Christians we should have the confidence that, like, just
bringing in kind of this metaphor of a rubber band, because we're Christian, that
band will never break. Right. God will never give us more than we can handle.
Yeah, exactly. He'll never give us more than we can handle, and I think the law
of the rubber band is one of the most important ones. Yeah, I press toward the
mark of the prize. For the prize of the high calling of God. Is that what you're
talking about? No, I was talking about where he says he was pressed out above
measure. Yeah, for we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our
trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure above
strength. Yeah, above strength basically is, like, beyond what his typical capacity
was, and that's where really where growth comes, is where you're kind of, it's like
weightlifting, right? You got it. You have to, like, linear progression. You need to,
like, lift more in order to get stronger. Yeah. Right.