Forged By Faith

Romans 8:13 NIV Now or later Because the promise is that we’re all going to find that there is no never. No, rather faith will eventually prove itself both a necessity and yet oddly too a choice we’ve all lived to choose. And this is something seen inside a scene always shown of a world that’s grown to hold such a low estimation of every such belief as is held in anyone, anything that is in anyway not ourselves because, well, around here self is all that sells. And having become a people all but born to buy, so then have we in life. Indeed, all of us have grown of that seed as has been shown in a world that still delights to show that delights are the very fabric of life itself and thus are what hold together basically the sum of every hope that anyone here dares to have. And that’s all well and good until you finally look up from your own personal chase to and through a life lived to waste what was our every chance to do something other than whatever we have, chances we’ll never have ...

Ephesians 5:7 NIV Undercomplicated Not to say that it’s not still complicated as it most certainly is seeing as most things in life are. Rather it’s just saying that maybe it’s not nearly as hard as we’ve all so often imagined it to be. For what if, instead of trying to see it through all the confusions and delusions that we’ve designed inside these times, we sought to see it through the simplicity of simply doing all He’s always asked us to? Again, wouldn’t necessarily make any of it any easier. But I dare say it wouldn’t make it any harder either. And that’s because faith is actually a supremely simple calling. It’s so simple in fact that all it really asks is a childlike blend of hope, trust, patience and belief. All of which are things that all of us offer to a great many things both throughout our lives and that every single day. Indeed, we are all giving these things away to things all the time that actually haven’t anything of everything that He’s not only already promised but a...

Ephesians 5:6 NIV Sons of wrath And daughters too for God’s a God of such supreme fairness and equality that He’s long since promised unto all of humanity a literal come to Jesus meeting in which we’re all guaranteed to there and then finally receive what is that great comeuppance we’ve all so fervently fought to both forsake and forget. Why? Because we’ve both earned it and, well, there’s got to be some sort of justice in light of our having just given up on our being even anything remotely close to who and what and where He created us to be and called us to stay. Which was at first a people who loved Him enough to do as He asked and stay away from that tree, a people who’ve since come to eat so much of said fruit that we love Him not and the world He created has thus began to rot thanks to routines so raunchy and ridiculous that our raucousness is now the perfect grounds for His grinding us into the dust toward which we’re all now promised to return. Wasn’t His first idea. Rather at ...

Colossians 3:5 NIV What’s normal isn’t And yet to us it is, or at least it sure seems to be. For there are indeed so many things that so many are doing so constantly, so continually, so communally that they do seem to form some sort of normality. After all, what else are we to understand when something such as, say, ‘cancelling’ someone else is done so often as it is anymore? Does not the frequency in which something is happening define best the normality thereof? Are we not indeed a people of such measurements as typicality and the reality it so often seems to insist upon? Sadly we are. We are very much just such a people who do indeed do such things as lean at first heavily upon such things as normality if not then, at some point, all but exclusively upon the society that’s sure to become consumed by the same. And why is society all but assured to fall prey to the doing of things that the majority seem to deem the “normal way”? Because we can all readily understand this now longstand...