Forged By Faith

Romans 6:11 NIV Turn around For the road we’re travelling as a people leads nowhere a people should so desire to be as it seems we’ve become so interested in becoming anyway. And indeed, when chosen long enough, the decisions and directions that we determine to take will come only to make what becomes our very identity. It’s like someone who goes to school to become something, a decision made to undertake their growth in this need to know how to do what they’re to eventually, hopefully, be known as such as doctors and chefs and such. Problem for us is that none should so seek to become sin as in that there is no such hope within. And yet, judging from the common undertakings being undertaken by those headed mockingly toward their undertaker, sin is sadly indeed not merely what we’ve all done but in fact who many among us have so become that they know not anything else. In truth, having each of us fallen so far short of the glory of God, even the good of ourselves, none of us then know ...

Romans 6:10 NIV From and for Or, perhaps more poignant to this post and point, to and toward. And that simply because of everything that’s ever been done in the history of our ability to do things, all things we’ve all done have been done only because those doing them believed then that they were able to accomplish something worthy of the work, wait or worry involved and entailed in their doing of whatever it was that they determined to do. For none of us will do anything if there’s not a valid reason as to why it needs to be done. How much less then shall the Son and what He’s done not accomplish that for which He did it which was and remains to erase the sin and shame that has kept us all standing in the rain of a life lived entirely plain upon this plane of pain caught in the pride that ties to what was a life that all have lived that is nothing like the life that we were created to live nor, now that He’s done what He did, have the chance to live again? Indeed, will not He who conq...

Galatians 5:1 NIV Again, just different And that, again, because we seem to have come upon this continued confusion as to what real freedom really is. And that confusion is born and borne inside this mind tied to this life in which we live as if life is already free seeing as how we have always been free to do as we please. And it’s this understanding of what freedom surely seems to be that seems to you and me more than a fine enough definition of the word seeing as how it accomplishes this swerve that allows us to always head toward what we hold to be our hope. And seeking for hope is something that none should have any issues with. Problem is that the things we’ve come to hope in are hopeless. They are legitimately without hope in the world, let alone beyond it. And we, being so consumed by the many hopes of this world, we too become ourselves without hope in the world because it only stands to reason that when you place your hope in that which is only without any to give, you simply...

2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV But different I’m convinced that this is what makes most so unsure, uncertain, unconcerned even when it comes to the Gospel of Christ. It’s that within this life we’ve all managed to find what feels to us a freedom all but perfected. I mean all of us do every single day so many of the things that we’ve, in our version of liberty, come to see as things so worth doing that we worry only about our ceasing from the same. Indeed, we seem a people entirely afraid of our ever having to let go of whatever it is that we’ve come to learn to think we love. For love is a powerful thing to be sure, but perhaps to be sure is a powerful thing all its own. And, well, maybe to be sure about love is what this life is meant to mean. Maybe this time is ours in which we’re supposed to grow until we know for sure what love is and what that means and why it means not all these different things that so many all around seem to assume it might. For after all, how could one thing accomplis...