Weightlessness

Faith, I think, is that woozy feeling you have when you're free falling. If you've ever had the chance to ride on a zipline, it's that instant between the time you push yourself off the platform and your weight is caught by the cord. It's the jump in your stomach that you have when you're going a little too fast over a hill in the road. I'm sure bungee-jumping is quite similar. It's weightlessness.

Most of the time, we think of steps of faith, like the one Indiana Jones takes in The Last Crusade. There are times when we are tested and we are supposed to step out in faith. The Bible says, though, that we are to live by faith, not to take steps of faith every once in a while. We are supposed to perpetually be seeking weightlessness, not to step out into the air and frantically search for the ground again. Jesus wants us to, in faith, die. There is nothing temporary about death. Once you take a step into the grave, you can't get yourself back out. You have to wait for someone who can raise the dead.