Forged By Faith

Deuteronomy 32:35 NIV What is time? Down here we know it as a measure of our moments, the distance that a breath goes and the amount of patience it takes to get there. It’s something we measure in minutes which are both broken up into seconds and yet also added up unto hours and then hours themselves collect into days which group themselves together into weeks of which four or more become months of which each year has twelve, a decade defined as a gathering of ten years and ten decades into a century and a century about as long as any of us ever possibly had to begin with. Way back when our unique portion of time was began in what’s since become a life in which said time has been running out thanks to our collective running away. And that from God. This is the journey we know as sin. It’s this choice chosen within to do contrary to what our Creator calls. It’s a heart refusing to humble itself unto the hope of a hope had later, seeking instead one nearer, easier, seemingly then better ...

Romans 2:5 NIV Avoiding the unavoidable It’s something we’ve all tried to do. Something that we’ll all try again. And that because we’ve been born and bred within this belief that is in reality nothing but a doubt as to the power, the authority, the authenticity maybe of another having or being more able or perhaps better capable than we are or at least enjoy assuming we might be. Indeed, we’re all of this belief that we can do things better and thus determine better results in the end of a matter by the time we reach said matter’s end. We live as if we have a say in how things go and where they go to and what all we’ll find and feel once we get there. And to some extent we’re right. Only problem is that that isn’t something to be proud of necessarily. And that’s because, well, the gift that is free will as allows us all to choose what we do and to do it for however long we want it done, it does give us a profound freedom found and felt down here under the sun, a freedom within which e...

Luke 12:19 NIV The golden cage It’s this common place in which I dare say it safe to assume that all of man has been before. For it’s a way of life that all have lived as is lived lost in love for all that looks like it adds worth to life, all that may well add worth to life. At least as it’s lived here. And yet that worth, that wealth as is so easily won and commonly wanted within this world as it does seem to add unto a life, while it may look all nice and feel real good and help to make our lives achieve both the same, still there comes a day when He will say that all we’ve had is to be left anyway. What then will we have? But you see, even in that question asked I find a farce as it again contends that what we have will matter then, even if in a backwards measure as is to be measured in how much we leave. Leaving then everyone who thinks still that way to be found, perhaps at least, as those still lost in the idolatry of wealth as won within this world in which, yeah, there’s more ...

Proverbs 13:7 NIV Welcome to the show The one in which everyone’s all dressed up and yet most live as if we’ve all nowhere to go, nothing more to be, never anything else to see or believe other than whatever we already do as is usually only about all we’ve either already done, wanted and won or what more we still hope to have while we’re here in what is a world in which everything’s weird and most of it’s fake and this because we, for some reason, simply cannot wait for the hope of being somewhere else that’s said to have something better as people who are by then made into something more. No, it’s all anymore as if we’ve all washed upon the shore of a billion different lives each being lived in a hundred different ways seeking after a million different things of which we’re all so very sure that we never stop to consider anything else, anything less, everything more. Never then wandering near the realization that it’s all fake. That we live in a world where the truth is held as a lie ...

Matthew 13:12 NIV Iniquity’s inequities To faith alone is there a familiarity to God’s somehow foreign fairness for it asks us to consider things from a perspective finally not our own as has been loaned to a land so lost as to find it more reasonable to consider there is no God. And this people amongst whom we’ve been and among whom we remain has become of this brain in a life spent inside this endless strain to make it plain their refusal to repent of what the grave promises will prove us all dead one day. Rather they live still to make it seem unfair that He is fair to their lack of faith. And indeed, I’ll be the first to confess that I too have made a mess of a message like this. I can’t count the number of times that I’ve mulled it over inside a mind that was still mostly mangled thanks to having learned how to think by a man so mingled inside of sin and self. And thanks to such a constant consideration considered amongst a society with clearly no concern about Christ nor apparent...