Gaps

Thursday, April 3, 2008

What is meant by a leap of faith?

When you are moving forward and you get to a space in the trail, or a gap, you either stop and go back, or you leap and keep moving.

We do this all the time when we are making friendships - we find gaps, or things we don't like but we know their friendship is greater than their gaps and we make the leap.

We do it when choosing a spouse. With eyes wide open we see gaps. And we need to decide to either back away, or jump ahead.

We do it when we study church history
○ Golden plates
○ Angels
○ Polygamy
○ Blacks and Priesthood
○ Old leaders

We do it when we start a new hobby or developing a new talent.

We do it when we take a new job.

We do it when we pray.

Gaps can be overcome with belief, with courage, and with desire to keep moving ahead. We call this combination of attributes - Faith.

Examples of Jumps

Metaphors of Examples of jumps
○ Piano - want to learn? Have to make that leap with practice
○ Synapse - it's that gap in the brain which allows for all knoweldge
○ Steve Covy - Says it's the gap which is our freedom. That moment betweeen stimulus and response.
○ Static Electricity including Lightening

Examples
○ Reading in 2nd Nephi - will he make it to Mosiah?
○ Coming to church for first time - will he make it through weird people
○ Old leaders?
○ Tithing
○ Joseph Smith

Gospel is filled with gaps which we must leap over.