Forged By Faith

2 Thessalonians 2:11 NIV The allowance As a people who’ve become children of this world via our amassing within the wealth held within so too then have we been conditioned to consider the concept of an allowance as something given to children in response to their both undertaking and thus upholding a specified responsibility mostly centered upon the idea of chores which they do mostly to receive this giving of money in what is a starter transaction which teaches them the importance of hard work and the rewards to be met in the doing thereof. But in general terms an allowance is simply the amount of something that someone is allowed. Parents allow their children the promise of a certain sum of something, generally money, given as something of a reimbursement upon their child doing something that the two have agreed upon being done. So in other words an allowance is the allowing of something to be given in the direct response to another allowing themselves to both expect and thus accept ...

Matthew 21:44 NIV The humbling Like it or not the promise is that for all of us it is coming and that perhaps as soon as this afternoon. And that simply because, contrary to our arrogant consideration that we’ve plenty of time still unto the preparation of our every preference and their every intention, truth is that we’ve a rather impressive inability to do or control or dictate much of anything. Maybe not even our actions as perhaps they’re all but reactions to things done to us, for us, asked from us. All then that might determine our measure of wrong from His perfection of right is whether there’s any sign or semblance of a willingness to if not help at the very least get out of the way of they who try. Something we all know very little of in life. Why? Because even to need help is to us a show of a life unable to grow into this overall expectancy of our being here so perfectly capable that we might prove ourselves ever able to do all things which need done all by ourselves and thu...

Isaiah 8:14 NIV No escape For where can you go to get away from what another knows you know? How might you outrun the One who goes before and behind? Where might you find a place to hide from He who sees the heart? How is it that we remain so convinced and easily so that we can somehow manage to together our lives hold that we know are falling so wonderfully apart? When could we start to just let it all fall if we knew that it would anyway and that upon a day of not our own choosing nor volition but rather in accord with His timing and provision? What all would we see if we would simply agree to let this life be the misery it’s meant to be? Alas so many days we give to trying our best to make things better both for us and around us and this makes sense from where we stand as, well, here we’re stood. We’re living lives that are mostly going good and so this allows easily that considering that with just a little planning and perhaps a bit of polishing our place here would be pretty much ...

Romans 9:33 NIV A simple difference Issue is that it’s not in any way simple for a people who so easily confuse that which is simple for that which is supposed to be easy. And indeed, I believe that this difference, though perhaps subtle, is one altogether best seen inside the scene that is our faith and/or chosen, yes, chosen lack thereof. And I believe that to have a lack of faith is a choice because we all have both the ability and the opportunity, as well as the promise of enduring a great many things that make it a vital necessity, to have faith as is placed in another. Which, granted, is clearly a rather large part of the problem seeing as how we’ve all come to absolutely adore the idea that we can do all of this all on our own. And, granted, we sort of can. After all all of us have in fact lived at least a portion of our lives getting by, and that perhaps probably alright, all on our own as in under our own strength as was given to only our own plans which are pretty much always...

Acts 4:11 NIV Overruled Because, well, truth is that God’s not persuaded by the arrogance of man nor is He in any way to prove ever inclined toward listening to, learning from nor looking for ways to please those who continue walking in it as is proven in every life that’s ever been lived by those of us, who are all of us, who have indeed lived as if Christ were neither a need nor even a thought. And in all sadness this is something that has defined all of us and how we’ve gone about at least a portion of our time here. We’ve all rejected Him, refused Him, ignored Him, maybe even mocked those who believed in Him before we did. Why? I personally think it’s because deep down we all know inside our bones and their marrow that “anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces” whereas too “anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.” And, well, human logic has us all pretty much convinced that neither of those is in any way an outcome worth wanting and so, well, we’ve just all chosen t...