Forged By Faith

1 John 2:16 NIV rejects the objectionable Which is arguably the part which poses the most profound problem of all those waiting to be found within what is a faith that leads us forever away from everything that is objectionable as the same are what have long been quite possibly our greatest objects of affection. For the truth is that we haven’t merely come to somewhat enjoy some of the things that are only slightly displeasing to God. We’ve not sort of dipped the toe into sin, kind of just testing, playing around with it only now and then. No. We have all chosen to dive headfirst and headlong into what it is to die unto that life for which He created us to live, living then as if nothing at all of all that He intended and thus clearly desired for us to be. Indeed, as the Word puts it, we’ve all of us what is an obvious form of godliness having all of us been made in the image of the only God there is, but so too have we all denied the power, the purpose, the promise thereof in what’s b...

1 John 2:17 NIV reconsiders the ruins Because for all our lives we’ve all been told that anyone who’s doing anything other than whatever is common or normal or elsewise popular is all but simply wasting their lives as, apparently, within this life we’re all here to find nothing but fun and fame and a true fortune then to be made out of what is a life given unto a stage living from which we perform for the masses all the signs and shows and songs they want to hear and see from you and me. Mostly only those who seem to agree that everything that everyone is doing is both just fine to be done and thus too something we may as well then do. After all, everyone can’t be wrong, can they? Well, according to the Word of God, yeah, yeah we are all in fact wrong. And now granted, there’s always some sort of measure to that in which we're all at what are various depths of depravity, delusion, disillusionment, indifference basically the lot. We are all in truth a quite different degree of lost....

2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV seeks beyond the surface Inside what is a life in which we slowly begin to realize that not merely are looks often deceiving, sometimes they’re just plain imaginary. And this is a hard thing for us to consider considering how we’ve all walked for years in what is this fear of relying upon anything other than our sense of sight. For so long it’s been but our eyes which have led our lives and that always in accordance with the coordinates given us by the things we’ve seen or sought not to. Indeed, life, as far as we know to live it, it’s been lived in love with our eyes keeping our heads above the surface seeking ways in which to avoid the suffering and find the successes. Yet anymore all I for one seem to see are but the messes from which we shall not walk away. At least not without some sort of price being paid. Thankfully said price was paid by He who came with the express intent to pay it in a kind of permanent that rendered pointless the entirety of all that w...

2 Corinthians 5:1 NIV delights in the dismantling For there’s just this strange sort of something that begins to become what we come to believe was always there waiting for us to stop believing that seeing was the way to find it. Or that it was our efforts which would get us there to wherever it is that we’re going. Or that we’d find our power of some point or purpose along the way. Or that He needed us to have a say as to how the road goes and what does and doesn’t get to go along it with us. Or that it was even about us to begin with. Because it isn’t. And that’s perhaps the main thing that we need to have destroyed. It’s this idea that has had all of us convinced that we’re more important than we are. This theory that we’ve such authority that we can both call and create, invent and that with intent, that our tents are our pride, our prize, our lives thus our own. They’re not. Alas we’ve fallen so in love with the idea that perhaps they could be that all we see are all these ways an...