Leap Devotional – Day 5

Crosspointlive   -   June 18, 2026

LEAP  •  A 5-DAY DEVOTIONAL  •  DAY 5

Now take the leap! 

KEY VERSE

SETTING THE STAGE

Four days ago you started with a single verse , Ephesians 2:10:  “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”

This week you’ve worked through what that actually means:

• You were made on purpose : not randomly, not accidentally, but with the care of a craftsman who knew what he was building
• You were saved for more than heaven — God didn’t rescue you and then bench you. You’re still here because the work isn’t finished
• Purpose requires a leap. And you won’t find it thinking harder. You find it by moving. Obedience before certainty
• You are carrying something – gifts given not for your own benefit but for the people around you. Everyone is called to serve. No spectators.

Today is the final day. And the point of today is simple: don’t let this week be information you consumed. Let it be a line you crossed.

ALSO READ

Isaiah 43:18–19  •  Philippians 3:12–14  •  Ephesians 2:10

Break it Down

Paul wrote Philippians from prison. That’s not a minor detail, it’s part of the whole point. He’s not writing from a comfortable place of clarity and success, looking back on a life that went according to plan. He’s in chains, facing the real possibility of execution, and he writes some of the most forward-leaning words in the entire New Testament.

‘One thing I do.’ ‘Forgetting what lies behind.’ ‘Straining forward.’

The word translated “straining forward” in verse 13 is a Greek athletic term — epekteinomenos. Think of a runner leaning into the finish line, body extended forward, every muscle committed to what’s ahead. Not glancing back at where they’ve been. Not slowing down to process the race they’ve already run. Fully committed to the next step.

Paul isn’t saying the past doesn’t matter. He’s saying it doesn’t get to determine what comes next. The failures don’t disqualify you. The detours don’t define you. The seasons that felt wasted aren’t the final word on your story.

Isaiah 43 says it a different way. God speaks to Israel (a people who had been through genuine devastation, exile, loss) and says: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing.” That’s not a command to pretend the past didn’t happen. It’s a command not to let the past set the ceiling on what God can do next.

Here’s what that means for you today. Whatever has kept you from stepping into purpose (fear, past failure, the sense that you’re not the right person, the feeling that you missed your window) none of it has the final say. God is not limited by your history. He’s not working with what’s left after your mistakes. He wrote your story knowing every chapter, including the ones you’re not proud of, and he called it workmanship.

Pastor Paul closed Sunday with a question worth sitting with one more time: Imagine reaching the end of your life and discovering that God had something incredible for you to do and you never took the leap. Not because you weren’t capable. Not because you weren’t gifted. But because you never stepped forward.

That’s not a hypothetical designed to produce anxiety. It’s an invitation. The gap between where you are and where God is calling you isn’t filled by figuring out more, it’s filled by moving. One step. The next one that’s in front of you.

So this is where the week lands. Not with a neat summary, but with a question you have to answer for yourself: What is the leap God is asking you to take?

You’ve spent five days building a foundation. You know you were made on purpose. You know salvation isn’t the finish line. You know purpose is discovered through obedience. You know what you’re carrying and who it’s for.

The only thing left is to go.

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

REFLECTION

PUT IT INTO PRACTICE

This is the whole point.

• Fill in the four blanks in “The Week in Review” box above. All four. Don’t leave the date blank.
• Take the one next step you’ve identified this week. Not next month. Not when things settle down. Now. The leap doesn’t get easier the longer you wait.
• Tell someone what you’ve decided. Not what you learned, what you decided. There’s a difference. Telling someone creates accountability. It moves the decision from internal to real.
• Find a place to serve at Crosspoint if you aren’t already. Not because the church needs bodies to fill roles, because you have something to contribute and the body functions better when every part is working. Serve Team Onboarding is available anytime online. You can find it here. 
• Come back to Ephesians 2:10 in thirty days. Read it again. Ask yourself: did I take the leap? What did God do with it? The goal isn’t a single moment of commitment. It’s a life oriented forward

PRAYER

Use this or pray in your own words. Either way, don’t skip it.