Forged By Faith

Isaiah 52:11 NIV Run from your life That’s not really something that ever really seems something that anyone ever seeks or assumes they might need to. No, for indeed every single life as has ever been lived within this world has been lived within the belief that we are free. And that because simply we’re all anymore so simple as to continue to assume that freedom means only our continuing to do whatever it is that we’ve come to believe we ought to. And that’s usually nothing more than whatever makes us happy or elsewise causes us to feel good. And thus freedom is often seen as nothing more than a symptom of satisfaction, or perhaps satisfaction a symptom of freedom. Either way the two are clearly connected if not at this time nigh inseparable. At least that’s how it seems from inside this scene in which we see all of every life being lived. Not that we can actually see the sum of everything everyone’s ever done as we’re not God, though we do like to imagine we are sometimes. And yet th...

1 Timothy 6:11 NIV Run for your life Because it will turn out that there is no life amongst those who are no longer alive. And this is, in truth, a quite hard truth to accept, to understand as from where we stand it sure does seem as if we’re stood amongst man who are alive in what is a life that we all share to some degree inside this place in which we see so very many who both look like you and me, talk like you and me, live like you and me. But the problem is that indeed looks and words and wants can prove to deceive. And so too then can life itself perhaps not be all that it may elsewise seem. Such as that that is spent upon this chase for all time will come to prove was a waste of itself upon this outlook that worried only for that which this world sells. And there are truly a great deal of these unruly priorities being placed still daily upon things that are themselves ever changing in what is a world proving persistently the same: Changing. It’s all just always changing. Nothing...

1 Timothy 6:10 NIV Fortune’s misfortune It’s not something anyone ever sets out fighting to find as rather the fame of fortune is what we all find we feel the need to find instead. And this pursuit for prosperity has indeed come to become quite the common care amongst our culture of what’s anymore made up of we who are a people only concerned about prioritizing our perspectives, many of which are placed all but entirely upon our estimation of the necessity of what’s no longer quite so simple as making a living. No, seems as though long gone are the days in which our ways were aimed always at just getting by inside what was then a life not so enamored by the allure of enamel. And thus as of today all our ways are anymore aimed always at the having of more of, well, anything really. Doesn’t even matter what as the quantity has so well overtaken our understanding of quality that we pay no mind to the lack of life being found, being felt, being lived as life itself is left behind as either...

1 Timothy 6:9 NIV Wandering wealth Because that’s what wealth wants and thus what wanting it does to we who are but a people who are here but for a moment that’s both worth far more than wealth and yet so often lost to the lust of a treasured trust placed in a trust of treasure to provide everything from security to pleasure. All simply because inside this world wealth wins whatever we want. Being rich can afford for us any kind of affluence we may find ourselves feeling influenced to assume we need. And this opportunity at such things as recognition and renown are found to form a crown that the crowd just can’t help but be enamored with. Thus a life we can’t help but be measured by. And indeed, this is life, or at least our meager measure of one as far as how to live it. It’s all something won within our winning of whatever more we can always find a way to want so badly that we eventually just believe it a necessity. Truly, I cannot count the amount of things offered by the wealth of ...