Forged By Faith

Matthew 23:34 NIV smiles at our share of the suffering Because we indeed come to indeed believe that “those who suffer in the body are done with sin.” So too that those who this world hates will suffer because, since being seen as not a willing participant within this world’s constant rebellion and that built and bound within an ever-growing delusion, the same are those who the masses will hate not because of who we are nor what we do but because we are His as do as He did. Or at least as He calls us to. And that is pretty much all it really takes to have taken away all the warmth and welcome that we once walked to win within what’s been a world in which we were considered a friend, a companion, a decent and upstanding citizen. Or at least we were when we were found stood in the same chains as those who seek here only to delay their suffering. But you see, such is the gravity of this gift we’ve been each given. Everyone with a life they’re living is to live it with some kind of misery ...

Amos 5:10 NIV welcomes their wrath Because at some point within this life as is lived within this world you’re bound to find that no matter what you do, sad truth is that someone will hate you. Someone will disagree with you. Someone will doubt you, debate you, deny you, decry you as one of an ever-growing list of names meant to scare us into always staying inside the lines that mankind has drawn for mankind seeking to keep all of us falling always behind everything better that most never now have any intention or desire to ever become. Indeed, this world has chosen the direction it delights to go in and it is both so convinced that it’s right, because it’s so broken that it can’t see that it’s not, that now those many who follow it, falling daily in love with the welcome of the width, all but insist that everyone who doesn’t isn’t. Yes, this world is absolutely packed with those who are absolutely assured that they know what they’re doing and are right in doing it simply because their...

Isaiah 59:15 NIV accepts the accusations Loner. Loser. Freak. Weirdo. Prude. Patsy. Fool. Failure. Sinner. Sucker. Moron. Idiot. Hypocrite. Weakling. Yes, whatever this world may want to call us, we’ll take it. In fact, all of these monikers are to us badges of honor that we seek actively to win. Why? Because to be liked by the world is to be loved by those who hate God. And to hate God is to actively work against life itself. And to so reject the gift of life is as dumb a path in which to ever so delight as so many around so clearly do both day and night. Indeed, we walk through a world at war in words, wielding petty judgements and chosen gullibility as if they’re actual abilities that may actually cause someone to literally give up everything they hope for and all they wish to be all for the prize that is personal glory as is given us by those who, yes, look like us but who, no, live not like us nor then we like they as, again, to be like they is to be against Him. And again, to liv...

Romans 3:13 NIV gives up the grave Only not that into which we’re all now called to come and down our lives lay but rather they amongst whom we walk who’ve always it seems something to say about the way in which we play what is this hand that we’ve made into this way in which we’ve now nothing to say unto He who is the One who went before and asks us to follow behind. Indeed, among this descent into madness in which He’s made me alive and makes me that still further every moment I find that I feel increasingly uninclined to listen to the thoughts and attitudes of various hearts which are clearly deceived and minds too then falling apart. A disinterest which is so very deep already and yet somehow deepens only at each day’s start. And that because this world hits us right in the face every single morning with what has become such a boring bearing of weights over which we should have never come unto this worry that we might really need to carry. Every hour we’re handed unto the power of ...