Forged By Faith

Proverbs 29:1 NIV A life for learning Such is in truth what all of us have and thus what all of this is. It’s all just one big lesson that we’re given the chance to live here learning in regard to what is right and what of that is actually righteous and how sadly often we’re neither nor anywhere close. For such is the truth of the path we’ve chose. It’s this daily drive to be like and liked by a fallen mankind who continue to fall to and through all sorts of opportunity to do better, to be better, to indeed find more. Nearly every such chance left broken on the floor of a life fallen to flood as is poured in all we love and the little we learn about why we maybe shouldn’t care for it quite so much. Alas, that’s never really a thought that we seem interested in ever even trying to think about maybe thinking about. Rather whenever we determine that we like something, enjoy something, love something or someone, most questions just stop being asked. We just bask inside the supreme simplici...

Psalm 73:19 NIV As it was Anymore I seem to find myself thinking more frequently about that verse and passage found for us over in Matthew 24 in which Christ our Lord is talking to those who’ve ears to hear and a heart finally willing to let them about what it shall be like upon the return of the Son of Man. And I think that’s because I do look around and see a people eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, indulging in every possible sort of revelry and rebellion that we can possibly manage to think of. Just don’t see many building boats. And granted, it’s not raining. It’s not even cloudy most days. Instead most days the skies are clear, the weather’s fair, the water’s fine and so everyone’s both welcomed to jump on in and most continue to do just that. It’s just that the water is sin and it’s got us all convinced to live so thin in regard to righteousness and self-control that, for all we know, nothing is ever going to change. And this is something that so many continu...

Job 20:11 NIV All good things We hear often that such must come to an end, a decidedly and sometimes measurably disappointing outcome to what’s otherwise been a stretch of good luck and fond fortune. And indeed, within this life within this world we’ve all felt ourselves meet face-to-face with many of those things that put a rather abrupt stop to our previous enjoyment of something. Perhaps an injury, an illness, a loss of something or someone that left us with what felt like lives less filled and less fun than they were before. And we measure these moments often as unfair, unwarranted, entirely unwelcomed because, to us, life is this existence in which the best of everything should continue coming toward us, for us because we feel that we’re deserving of it. But what if it’s our expectations such as such that achieves for us all of the disappointment we meet? What if it’s our ego claiming that it knows that we deserve to have fun, to feel good, to believe we are good that’s only setti...

Job 20:8 NIV A whisper in the dark Such is the fate that awaits those wicked at heart. And this is because at each day’s start their willingness toward reason, righteousness and reality falls apart. For within them they have not a care as to the story we’re all living nor the part for which they were cast as rather than being kids caught in the wonder and awe of it all they instead wish only to wander without the wonder as to the Word and its Writer. Instead the wicked want for their own story written of their own gain and all theirs the glory. And what makes this such the common confusion is that it is sadly what so many are doing and that to what seems a life so filled with everything that anyone could ever want. But that which fills is that which can be emptied whereas that which is empty can only then be filled. And that upon the Day when everything’s promised to change. And sure, said Day seems to continue to elude, evade. There’s indeed come not yet said Day in which change has b...

Job 20:6-7 NIV The vanishing point Though we see it not from where we stand or don’t there comes a point in which a pride’s at home in what becomes the highest hope that it can have and that of a life in which it is all that is good and everything else is only bad. And this idea, this ideal it’s something that we’ve not the ability to see because our pride is so blind that it thinks it can. Indeed, the issue with all vanity and ego is that it thinks that it knows all there is to know and can thus determine for itself the best place to go, the best things that we can see, the best that we can be. And sadly it always assumes that we’re already there. But if we’re already there then we’re already gone. Because the highest point of pride is the unforeseen loss of life. And I know that may sound strange considering the sights and sounds we see atop this ground of a people living like royalty. And indeed, it does here seem as if vanity has no real negatives, no real problems, can in fact man...