Forged By Faith

Galatians 5:17 NIV The war within Seems it’s one won every once in a while and yet lost more times than we might imagine all while being completely ignored most often and worried about perhaps even less. And I suppose that’s just because we’ve become rather numb to the reality of it all. For anymore it seems that our society’s chosen to simply succumb to the downfall in which we all just do whatever feels good, looks right, sounds okay and hopefully then goes the same. We are truly a people who hope always for the best, and while this is a good thing I guess, truth is starting to show that hoping for better whilst not giving our best creates only a deepened contest between who we are and what more we may not even believe we can still be. For indeed, there’s this sad reality that’s befallen all of our humanity that’s found for us this general floundering, this flailing, this failing to find, force, fight or feel as if we even care to try. Rather here inside every day of this collective ...

Galatians 5:16 NIV The divergence Though long unseen and obviously unfelt by then most if not all who’ve walked this earth, there’s a truth to life that we’ve likely then never known and even possibly sought to ignore if not deny outright. And this truth is that there exist two paths walked in one life as is lived in this one place in which we all live one as is chosen every day between these two differing options. Now granted, that they’re both walked within the same place does seem as if to say that there’s at least some degree of similarity between them. But perhaps this assumption, albeit innocent at first, it’s one that only grows to become a difference between everything from doubt to belief and, because of that, even life and death. The sad news is that, again, this truth as to these two has long remained unseen and clearly unfelt by most here who still do as they’ve long done simply because such will always remain the easiest of all ways in which to live this life. But the prob...

Romans 8:12 NIV What remains? Both of the opportunities to which we were at first allotted what’s long been a life spent not worrying much if all about them and too the time in which we can change that? For I’m somehow convinced that I’ve often missed my chance as my life, though amazing, it’s not gone the way in which I know it should. For in His Word we read that He created us to do good and, well, I must admit that there’ve been many times inside my life in which I didn’t. Rather there have been more than a lot of times in which my mind seemed to either care not as to what good possibly was or just wasn’t able to see it at all. And this reality has caused me to wonder why. What was there in my life that kept me from seeing the better I could have been doing all of those times in which better ended up being further away than I thought it was in the moment? For isn’t that so often how life seems to go? We think we’re doing well as things are going pretty alright and yet then we look u...

Colossians 1:29 NIV The emptying What if we gave this everything? Where might we go if we allowed for nothing to restrain this faith that He’s given His life for us to have inside our own? Who could we become if we could become as willing to venture into the fray as He was that day that He took His body and literally laid it on the line to form the line over which the only life we can ever live is finally lived? What all might we do if we did only what all He called us to in whatever fullness He’d planned for us to? How could life have been different if we hadn’t done all we wanted to back when we had all those opportunities to do something new? It seems that as time goes wherever time goes these are the only questions it leaves behind. For the further I go in this life as is lived in what is a place which can’t contain life but for a collection of years we all learn to give our fears to worrying about running out at some point within them, it feels as if all I manage to find as I lose...