Mark 2:21-22

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.

Jesus gave us a picture of how to grow through the illustration of wineskins. New wine gives off carbon dioxide. New leather will stretch, but only to an extent. As the wine gives off its gas, the leather will blow up like a balloon. As the wine ages, it will stop giving off gas, and can be kept in the now-old, stretched-out wineskin. But if someone were to put new wine into one of these already stretched-out old wineskins, what would happen? The gas from the wine would cause the old wineskin to burst. The wine would be spilled and the wineskin would be ruined. So we are called to stretch by being a new wineskin that is able to hold the ever-increasing glory of God. 

Surround yourself with bigger and better people and opportunities in order to grow to your full potential. I have heard it said that, “If you are at the head of the class, you are in the wrong class.” Do not be the big fish in a small pond, but become the small fish in a big pond in order to grow. Take on challenges and opportunities to become a bigger fish for God. Step out into greater opportunities that stretch you and your abilities. All growth takes place outside your comfort zone.

You will never reach your potential if you are not doing things that push you beyond your limits. Famous artist Pablo Picasso said, “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”