Forged By Faith

Hebrews 12:4 NIV So go further Try harder. Fight smarter. Lose bigger. Hurt more. Suffer. Struggle. Stumble. Embrace sorrow. Count losses as if wins. See the things in your life that do not belong in nor to Christ slowly ebb away as you hasten the day unto which we’ve all been called in which we’ll all be judged not by the petty judgements of this world as are rendered upon the color of skin and the number of digits a career might win but rather within the merit of our character as is to be measured by the words, deeds and actions undertaken in what is a life lived on loan. And that from He whom we’re to love more than life itself. An opportunity presented within the hatred of sin that offers within a stone-like resolve that revolves around living to please He who died in our place by, while in this place, our too dying to all that demanded His undue suffering. Yes, we are called to carry crosses our own, a veritable punishment in every way and that found and felt in many ways every da...

1 Peter 4:1 NIV United In suffering. For there must be something seen of a soul’s sharing in their understanding as to the severity of their own salvation. Because such a glorious gift given demands then that we give it something in return. And yet, having each of us so fallen from His glory, falling so woefully short always thereof, we’ve nothing to give unto He who is our glory, our hope, our mercy as needed daily. No, we have nothing fit to offer such a King so very kind. Except such a humility that it elates in the sharing of a life lain down in sacrifice as chosen, yes, chosen so as to rid itself of sin. All by admitting, in humility, that we who have come to love what He lives to hate cannot then be the ones who empty ourselves of the same. No, for what one becomes is that by which they will forever be known. And so, in this, we are all sinners in what are lives stained of an all but almost stoic resentment against our Creator and an anymore growing contentment within it. Yes, we...

Matthew 18:9 NIV Eyes to see Since we’ve all claimed we have them, so now then we’ll never use them to find a single excuse as to why we peruse the fallen things that we do, coming to emulate or lust for a great and growing many. No, for just as He who is mercy tells us plainly, if we hadn’t eyes then we’d have neither blame for our having become so lost as you cannot hold accountable those who haven’t the ability to account. But that we all have accounted for the many choices we’ve chosen and the paths they’ve paved, so too then are we now bound to answer for the things we’ve thus seen fit to do. For having eyes to see leaves us no excuse to use. Rather we’re all now, having again lived a life as if we’ve known always what we were doing as largely based upon whatever we wanted to, we are all now on track to answer for what we’ve done when found before He who sent the Son to come into this world as the greatest of all lights so as to pierce open our eyes to the very seeing of the profu...

Matthew 6:23 NIV The best of us What if it’s the worst of us? What if we’re only best at being wrong? What if being wrong is what we’re in fact anymore so very good at that we don’t care to become good at anything else, thanks to the defiance designed inside such a dire decay? What if indeed we’ve so come to love living this life this worst of all wrong ways that we cannot seem to ever again see any real need to be anything or do anything any differently? Does not a delight in wrong only design a dedication to the same? Is that not the overall purpose of such things as dedication, discipline, determination? Are not they all something of a determining as is always done upon a resolve to leave then a matter resolved? Granted, we’ve all made plenty of choices that only came around to be found as having been the wrong choices to make. But unfortunately it’s a measure of humility that such a realization always takes and thus one that is being taken advantage of less and less in these days a...