Faith Leaping (Part 3)

Length of Shower: You have to risk picking up that foot in order to get it clean --Continuing the 4-part series on Leaps of Faith, this is part 3.

The Leap

Taking the actual leap means a couple of things have to happen.  First of all, we have to leap with full commitment and confidence, no halfway about it.  We can’t test the waters with our pinky-toe first, we just have to leap.  Also, we have to be willing to not look back.  An old Guideposts quote says, “Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.”  I can’t remember ever seening an athlete of any kind looking backwards while they leaped.   It’s absurd to think anyone would.  So we can’t either.  Keep the eyes forward.

Old sayings are worth repeating, like “God works in mysterious ways.”  It’s true God does, but it’s about control. God can’t work God’s magic if we have control of the wand…with both hands…and a firewall…and security password only we know.  It’s about that other saying, “Let go and let God.”

Whenever I leap, and often when I am not leaping, there are two things I hang onto -- these are my ‘rocks.’  First is Romans 8:31 “If God is for us, who can be against us?”   The second is from a poster I used to have growing up.   It said “The One who has put the determination within your heart, will give you the ability to succeed.”  When we leap, let’s hang onto those, and let everything else go.