Take a Leap of Faith in 2008

Follow God’s Lead

Sometimes, the decision is made for us, forcing us to throw ourselves on the mercy of God and take the leap of faith. We may suddenly lose our jobs, relationships, or suffer illnesses or accidents. We may suddenly find ourselves adrift on the sea of uncertainty, and be forced to take steps toward our goals purely out of necessity.

On December 30th, I believe that God orchestrated circumstances to force me to take stock of myself and my writing. In the last half of 2007 I had allowed other situations in my life to cloud my view of what was truly important to me and what was necessary to keep my passion alive. Consequently, my approach to writing had lost its shine, so to speak. However, despite knowing and wanting the opposite, I stalled on taking steps to rid myself of my self-destructive procrastination, comfort zone complacency and obsessive compulsive tendencies that interfered with my desire to stretch myself and my writing.

In a snap decision, without verifying that the files I had been saving elsewhere were intact, I gave the go ahead to clean up my computer. When I attempted to transfer my files they were nowhere to be found. All my work, all my research, all my writing had vanished. I lost everything.

Losing my writing life, as it were, was like God saying, “Enough talk; it’s time for action. It is time to free yourself from the crutches of your past achievements and launch forward.” I needed that. Rebuilding my writing library is no easy task. But you know something, when I realized what had happened, I took a quick glance of the work involved. Then I turned my eyes to God who alone can equip me for the task ahead.

Whatever ideas, dreams, plans or goals may dance in your head this year, don’t discard them at the first tinge of fear. Have faith in God to guide, equip and uphold you as you take stock and make decisions about making or not making changes.

Is there a leap of faith you’ve wanted to take? How long have you been standing at the door, shaking hands and sweating palms on the knob? Has the abyss of the unknown filled you with fear? No one can make the choice for you. You are the one to take a hard look at your life, decide what you want, trust God for strength, for wings and for success. Then leap. Anyone can take a leap of certainty. It takes much more courage to take a leap of faith. Go ahead, you take yours and I’ll take mine.