I was reading John this morning, really fast, and came to the end quite abruptly. He ends by telling us the reason why he wrote all these things in the first place. You can read it for yourself in John 20, but to me I feel like John writes all these stories about Jesus and then basically asks me to leap.

“Listen, this stuff is real, it’s hard and I believe your life will be more full this way. But you’re going to have to jump, you’re going to have to leap. You have all these other ways you could live, but I’m telling you this is better. Trust me. Leap.”

And the longer I am a Christian, the more I have to leap.

Life gets hard, bad stuff happens, I have lots of questions, is this true or this, or how about this? But what about this God, and this? And those people?

Come on, give me something to hold onto here God!

The problem is that Jesus isn’t inviting us to have all the answers.

I mean look at all the things Jesus gets excited about in John. It’s all these people who have faith! I haven’t seen faith like this he says.

All these people leaped, and He loves it!

I don’t know if what I’m praying for will happen, the big or the small.

I don’t know why some prayers in the world get answered and others don’t.

By praying 12 minutes I don’t have any answers, but I know I am experiencing a different kind of life.

I leaped, in this one area, and I’m taking what Jesus says and believing it’s true and going with it.

And I guess the only thing I do know is that I’ll probably have to leap again soon…