TAKING a leap of faith. It’s a great phrase.
Believing in an invisible God and in a Messiah who walked the Earth thousands of years ago is, at first glance, unfounded.
Faith jumps off the secure ground of provable events and sails over the unknown.
At Easter, Christians celebrate Jesus rising from death.
Rather paradoxically, we believe that God delivered visible proof of his existence and of life everlasting.
Only that was long ago and nobody shot a video.
So believers today are still hovering over the unknown.
And we are, generally, okay with it.
Because faith is not defined by the absence of scientifically tested knowledge.
It is a decision to be comfortable sitting with the not-knowing.
To question, reflect, doubt and wonder, but to ultimately accept that mysteries of faith will not be understood in the same way that mathematics or geology are.
Why then take that leap of faith? Because, if true, it is wonderful.
A force of unfailing love in your life always.
A God who cares about us so much that he took human form to talk to us, touch and love us in person.
Who personally played out the mystery of life everlasting for us.
If true, how reassuring. What a source of hope and joy.
I want to believe that.
I want to take that hope and joy and bring it into my relationships and my work.
It is leap, maybe even a stretch.
I can’t know. But hey, I’m okay with that.
Stefanie Çetin attends St Nicholas Church (part of the Parish of St Paul’s), which meets in Emmbrook Village Hall on Sundays at 11am.
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