Forged By Faith

Titus 2:12 NIV learns of a life in “no” Which honestly comes at quite the surprise considering for all our lives we’ve all lived through eyes that knew only of “yes” and “please” and “thank you sir, may I have another?”. Because those are the keys which have always seemed to open every door behind which we’ve learned to believe that all the best of all this life always waited for us to find a desire to feel as though we needed it. That life itself was something that sells upon shelves in stores or is offered on pages in magazines or flashes exciting family scenes on our tv’s telling us all about all the benefits and side-effects of some new something that’s taking the world by storm. Indeed, we’ve all lived our lives one ShamWow and a roll of Flextape away from utter perfection. This is in fact why such infomercials were invented. It’s because the makers of their products sold within them, usually even offered us in payments paid in installments so that we can go ahead and receive the ...

Titus 2:11 NIV grapples with the gravity For in reality there is a particular if not indeed perfectly peculiar purpose unto every prize promised as is met only when it’s met by those to whom it’s given. It’s a weight won within this realization as to the time, effort, investigation that was given by another in order for their to determine that which they’ve now given. And this time and intention is, or at least should be, worth as much to we to whom any gift is given as is the gift we’re given. And that’s because every gift ever given was only given by someone who took their time from their life and decided to build, to buy what is this then beautiful expression of their having chosen to put us before themselves. And that’s just a really hard thing to fathom. Or, again, at least it should be. But unfortunately what we seem now to see is this sea of which is our society in which we’ve all chosen all but collectively to sink inside what is this life in which we live as if we’re owed some...

2 Timothy 1:9 NIV believes before the beginning And thus too after for if there was something there in which to believe in before this thing we now know as time began then so too must it make sense for something to be there waiting for this thing called time to reach its end. And, well, if for nothing else but the simple sake of simplicity, why not believe that that which was before is the same as that which waits after? Seems to make things entirely elementary, which, not to knock us or anything, but such is in all honesty the kind of thing that we do best with. That which is so simple it’s stupid. And that because we’re so stupid that He had to make it all so very simple as to literally tell us how all of this, and all of us, both got our start, what to do with what’s so clearly now underway and even what is the way we’re supposed to go through this show that is this life down in this hole that is our soul that has been sold to he who seeks only to steal and kill and destroy, a work ...

2 Timothy 1:10 NIV ravels in the reveal For within the realization of our redemption both being sealed and straining near there comes this loss of the fear of the loss of this life as we come to learn that within the Light is and was the only life that ever were we intended to live. And sure, this realization brings with it a realizing as to the life we’ve lived instead, one which left us both spiritually dead and deserving of the bodily same, which is too part of this parcel which is His promise which doth indeed pursue us. And yeah, it’s still sometimes somewhat strange to find oneself finding joy in approaching such a destination. Because none alive wish to die as it’s the living of life that clearly makes a life worth living. It’s just that in Christ and His finished work upon the cross which was and is and will forever remain the cornerstone of the Gospel, a cornerstone still being roundly rejected by the many who continue building their lives within the deaths designed within the...

1 Corinthians 15:54 NIV finds life in letting go And that of life itself as there’s this tomb that tells of a worthy well which knows thy name and came to this place to save the same by dying to this world so that we would find within Him a faith that sets us free from feeling still as if we here should be. Granted, that here we are is undeniable and all things which are as they are are so because they’re supposed to so be. The only difference for you and me is that who, what, where we are is all perishing. The why never will. And who, what, where we are is all whatever it is because He’s still things for us to do, to see, to be. And truth is that they are all waiting for us to stop waiting for them to be or become whatever it is that they’ve not yet been thanks to our having been whatever it is that He came to at first overcome and then to help us unbecome. And to unbecome whatever it is that you have become is something that’s just bound to take some time. Thanks to the Christ it onl...