Forged By Faith

1 Samuel 8:8 NIV Looking around one's sure to see that there's a certain degree of distress hidden either beside or maybe behind a world of what is still, until this day, one of such an invincible incivility. In fact, it’s something that’s becoming a sort of sorrow to be seen inside a stagnant society still entirely too lost within this shared certainty that everything being done down here is worth doing while here. And it's a matter that’s most likely bound to bring about a measure of heartbreak when we watch those to whom we're called and toward whom we call with the call of Christ, and for whom we're so willing to fight to the very point of smiling should we lose our lives that they might find His hope in theirs, watching them all just not care is just a brutality against which no form of upfront hatred can compare. Because it’s one thing to sit in silence and solitude with the decisions and devotions upon which our lives have determined their direction, but it’s

Joshua 24:15 NIV What is perhaps one of the most often quoted lines of Old Testament theology has alas become too one of the most often under-agreed upon opportunities chosen amongst humanity as evidenced in the opposition to such a stance as shown in ours. For to declare that both one and their house would then, or as of today, will now serve the Lord against any of the alternatives or competitives or additives or objections or oppositions or whatever otherwise differing perspectives, such a different declaration is one as limited in popularity as Joshua’s proclamation would prove to the people who at first agreed only to live in blatant disregard within days. And this dishevelment in regard to an upright devotion is one still displayed in these days in which we waste our focuses upon fellowship with such an antiquated foolishness. Simply for the sake of some sick and subhuman sense of acceptance found both from and offered too unto those for whom we’ve come to so divvy up our dedicat

Joshua 24:14 NIV While the faces and spaces may have changed indeed, and rather dramatically if not perfectly at that, I fear that Egypt remains and thus too its stains as swollen inside a people unwilling to move forward in faith. For as it turns out, that’s the only real direction that faith moves. And as faith is life, too thus, forward in faith is the only movement in which any of mankind can ever truly exist let alone ever really hope because hope can only ever be really realized if we’re to ever finally abide beyond the inside fashioned of these forsaken assumptions of presumption and pride which have been passed down leaving us all only living life to pass away along with a world in which we’ve walked and from which we’ve learned how to do so and still not manage to get anywhere. For despite our progressions past Pharaohs and our tendency to see such humanity as the only existence of true authority afforded unto us within which to witness the theophany we so dearly desire in ord

Romans 8:5 NIV “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.” Perhaps proving now rather ironic in that those who fail to learn from the past will indeed succeed in repeating it. Yeah, such is the clarity seen when one humbly agrees to read the Word! In fact, while studying throughout Judges here lately, I’ve noticed that same message shared above strewn throughout the Scripture in what seems an invasive tie which binds the entirety of the book’s basis together with the fact that we’re still even today but a continuation of the calamity designed inside such a unanimous dishevelment as that of the leadership vacuum created when everyone does as they see fit. Indeed, despite the fact that that very inclination is what eventually came to all but destroy Israel as a nation, yet it’s a pattern so repeated that we’ve not saw fit to repeal it even these centuries advanced from the common failures to undertake a lone reverence left to the Lord alone. For even now, everyone d

1 John 2:17 NIV As to why the words from a song written some 100+ years ago would become, all of the sudden and thus quite suddenly, something of such inescapable substance that someone would be otherwise unable to not talk about it, well, I have no idea. But it seems as though these days I see that the luster and allure of lure and lie will indeed, as the song says, grow strangely dim in light of the glory of the God who sent the Son who left the Spirit who leads us home. For as said Son said himself, “if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?” Indeed, it seems as if already we’ve found why that hymn has given me something to say. Because if that home were not so toward what then would He have died to lead? If that hope weren’t given unto us why, while on earth, would any hope in life beyond that held here? For the most common message tells us constantly that there are plenty of things within this world in which to house our hope and