Forged By Faith

Romans 12:12 NIV Moving on. Always into the greatest of unknowns of all time, or at least as conceived as of yet within what is our time that isn’t really our time at all but rather a small mall of stores selling stories of high-rise hopes being both leveled and levied for and too against what are but a people often pretending themselves of more power than either the past proves or the present can purchase. No, seems that rather than unfolding according to some plan we’ve paved, this new day and every to be still like it as given us ahead, they’re all something we’ve never seen in a place we’ve never been as a person we may fail to be. For such is the story of life, of love, of hope and healing and joy and meaning and the reality that says even time has a meaning despite it leaving us without any left at some point. And it’s to that point we go. Which is kind of what we both talked about yesterday and too what we talk about every day. It’s this overall marching onward of life and love ...

Mark 8:35 NIV A life lost. Seems as though that such is what’s promised unto all no matter how we get there. And too it’s a promise that’s to be proven in perhaps perfectly unique ways within the days we’ve each been allotted to live a life lost. Which, granted, isn’t at all what God at first hand in mind as He held us inside the same. No, for once we were imagined into creation, a creation created by a Creator creating a cherished children whom each shared in His image and imagine the identity He imagined us having. It’s just that we willfully lost what He fought for us to simply have and stay. We rather wanted another way as won within our wondering into wandering both away from who He is and thus who we were made to be. For the fact is that the two, whilst obviously different in regard to such things as authority and thus too authorship, weren’t at first designed to become quite so different as we’ve delighted to be. No, in truth God didn’t create us to so delight in our own demise ...

1 Peter 2:1 NIV Because He did. Indeed, that Christ came how He came was intended to change everything in what was then a good work began that He’s said was started with every intention of carrying it on until its completion at the day of Himself. Alas I suppose that perhaps the overall confusion, as designed inside of our common delusion that has us all but bound and determined to do this our way so as to always find us feeling as if we’re the ones in control, that confusion of none of us knowing the day nor hour has stripped us of any such power and proven us rather entirely at the mercy of both time and trial. Don’t mind the first as it’s so taken for granted that it’s quite easily ignored. The second though… No, we’re not at all inclined to endure such things as trial for the simple torment that we see inside such portent as His even warning us that whilst within this world we would have trouble. We don’t want trouble. Oddly enough don’t really mind making it, but we really don’t w...

John 15:22 NIV In excusable. Population: 8,211,939,609 Or at least that’s as of 3/21/2025 the likely still highly estimated if not entirely presumptuous world population. And too thus such a place as our all are living within what is a life in which it so vastly seems we all still assume we’ve seen more than reason enough to seek only the excuses that we all think excuse the inexcusable that we’ve not only continued to do but in fact all but come to be. For the reality of an existence in which those existing make any if not all of their choices, said existee is thus only to eventually be all but defined by what they do with or within their existence. And thus we are not merely sinners who’ve accidentally slipped up a few times into, by sheer happenstance, what’s since been proven a mistake or two. No, rather we are all now all but sin having chosen that way of life so very often that our very own Creator had to humble Himself at first unto breathing a Word that sought to call us back t...

Titus 2:11 NIV Teaching us to us “to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions.” And that despite, or perhaps even in spite of, the overwhelming and yet somehow daily growing lack of “self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age.” Indeed, so much of who we are as defined most basically by what we do is done and thus won within the ways in which the world around us walks. And yet it’s becoming increasingly clear to see that the ways in which this world walks are what define all as being in an already dire, and that only deepening, need of the grace of God that offers salvation to all people. Really then a most benefiting gift in that all of us are in fact a part of this “all people” spoken of here as being those to whom salvation is offered from only the overarching grace of God. Indeed, while we might be entirely overwhelmed with wickedness and thus vastly found within what is a world now all but overwhelming itself with the pressures to keep choosing and chasing tho...