Forged By Faith

Ezekiel 36:26 NIV Ask and you shall receive Problem is we tend to be quite surprised when His answer us finds in the form of something being removed in order to make way, to make room for the new that we’ve asked Him to give, to bring, to help us find or help us leave. You see, I think we so easily get accustomed to this baser approach to the living of a life in which we do so little that’s even useful, ever meaningful that we begin to believe that the greatest changes we’re likely to face are to be themselves quite small and miniscule. And what’s worse is that our living so often inside this box of our limited abilities causes us to perceive limits to God’s abilities too. Until we eventually lose sight of the very God who both created seas so as to swallow what just wasn’t working anymore but also parted the same so as to save the part that He wasn’t yet quite so ready to wash His hands of. And it’s in this measuring of God’s abilities via our often inability to even understand the li...

Psalm 51:10 NIV What isn’t As of now, at this very moment, that’s all that we know to be ahead in what is now a new so novel and strange that we simply cannot see what will be, what might be, what won’t be. We just don’t know. And this has for all of human existence found for us this almost insatiable fear as met within the reality that we’re not as in control as our ego and vanity would elsewise, have elsewise so often tried to pretend, assume, imagine. Rather the reality of novelty is that it comes at us daily in what’s then such a measured approach that we’re left with nothing but to welcome it the same. In whatever measure it comes when said measurement has been made by whomever has such authority to so define reality and how it moves within the finery of its forming new every morning. And indeed, it all seems to be a quite refined process, this purpose which we meet with, of which we’re met with here atop what is a path that we’ve not paved, not purchased, not planned or at times ...

Matthew 15:8-9 NIV Merely human Barely human at this point if we were to be honest, which sadly most often we’re not as among our human rules of such vanity as the ego and idols in which we daily bow to worship is found this idea that dishonesty is somehow a better policy as it provides a profit of praise sent back our way from those whom we seek not to offend and thus continue thinking us their friends because we speak the lies that allow them to remain in lives that are but a collection of time that’s dying both slowly and yet still quicker than we could ever imagine. Just slow enough to inspire in us this vast unwillingness to live as if our lives are on the line, lives themselves lived so fast that we think they’re not because we think we’re living life at its best already. Yep, we’ve done arrived at the very pinnacle of all human potential! So indeed, let us gather together upon this last day of yet another year gone by and pat ourselves on the back as we raise our heads high stil...

Acts 28:27 NIV A resilient resistance Such is what allows for the formation of a callous heart otherwise defined as a hardened heart, as is indeed quite the same as the hardened hands which themselves are referred to being as such thanks to the calluses which form upon them. Callus and callous are in basically every way the exact same thing, even down to being all but identical in spelling, in formation, in feeling even. For both are formed due to repeated friction, pressure or irritation which inspires the flesh involved to harden itself so as to in a way protect itself. A protection sought from that which it understands as posing risk of further injury, pain or similar misery. Problem is that the difference is that a callus you can see, you can feel, you can run your fingertips along the inside of a human hand and feel the hardened, slightly bumpy and/or rough patches that have built up into this toughened exterior due to the years of such manual labor as lifting heavy loads or sweep...

Matthew 13:14 NIV Can’t or won’t In truth, such are the only two when it comes to every one of the things in life that we elsewise leave undone, unknown, unwanted, unwon, unrealized, unlegitimized, unobjectified. There is no other option as to why things in this life are to be found as unfinished, and so too then we the same. It will indeed all come down to a simple principle of reality as is found inside the difference between can and can’t and won’t. And the gravity of this reality is that to be measured in eternity. For once there at the cusp of, we’ll each be given as our deeds and efforts deserve. His words, not mine. It’s literally all right there in Romans 2:6 which says, “God ‘will repay each person according to what they have done.’” Which is itself something of a quote taken from the Old Testament in such verses as Psalm 62:12 and Proverbs 24:12 which say, “and with you, Lord, is unfailing love’; and, ‘You reward everyone according to what they have done’”, and, “If you say, ...