Rope that Always Catches

I love rock climbing (though not usually so hot on big wall, I'm starting to get pretty solid on them boulders) and I like analogies (sometimes), so I'm shooting this one out there. When I was first learning to top-rope, my housemate pointed out to me that at some point, in order to get comfortable on the rock, I just had to take a fall and trust that the rope will catch. (It's similar to weight-lifting in the sense that, without a spotter in some exercises, you don't increase in strength if, for safety's sake, you always stop just before pushing out that last would-be muscle-building pinnacle rep.)

For me, Jesus is the Rope that Always Catches, the Spotter who pushes me to the place where I would have definitely failed trying to get to on my own.

...with my God I can scale a wall.
[Psalm 18:29b]

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