Forged By Faith

Psalm 38:4 NIV What is regret? Is it a guilt so great that nothing else really even seems good anymore? Is it a misery met inside every time we make a mistake? Is it the feeling found in finding out you’ve once again failed to find what you’d hoped the future would hold? Is it realizing the past was proven the disaster it was because you’d become unable to care as to the responsibility proven in between right and wrong? Is it always a long-gone journey spent holding hands with sorrow seen inside every scene we’ve shown of a life lived on loan but always loaned out to another, letting someone else tell us who to be, what to do, where to stay? Is it a failure to move beyond where we’ve been, who we’ve become and what all we’ve done to define the both? Is it something fear knows to find better than we could have ever imagined it might? All’s I know is that within this life all of us have in fact felt this fight that’s been so often waged between where we’d hoped to go and wherever it was ...

Romans 3:23 NIV What is failure? Is it some forlorn finish line we manage to find too much of the time despite trying to find its better? Is it the wind that blows us off our feet and sweeps our minds clear of any idea as to how to get back upon them as life’s weather rolls ever in? Is it the discounting of expectations accepted without our realizing we’re doing so until it’s been done and there’s nothing we can do to undo it? Is it the undoing of us and all we’ve tried to do, to be, to see inside this life as lived inside this place in which we all fail inside every day? Is it the sum of the days in which things didn’t go our way despite our always trying to ensure they might? Is it a lack of might seen inside a sudden loss of courage found in an ongoing tendency toward being afraid of falling short? Is it the wisdom won within falling short as can only be done, can only be understood should there stand some exemplar example against which we’re either called to compare or compete, or ...

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV What is fear? Is it a feeling felt always in only fight or flight? Is it the fight found when finally face-to-face with the facts of our fragility and its tendency toward our failure? Is it the failure we find inside that flight spent trying often in vain to rise above the rain and pretend we know nothing of pain? Is it the frailty of feelings forced upon us from frightening things stood before us? Is it our faith finally figuring out that we’re all destined for a downfall or fallout without any say as far as when it comes or how it goes? Is it going wherever He came to ask we come without much in the way of courage to be found along the way, but a choice chosen anyway as we finally see we’ve no other choice should we wish to find a life? Is it so wise as to seek for life when most around us are living as if they’re alive already? Is it wisdom at all? As far as I can figure our feeling of fear is a fragment found in our finding out that we’re far less powerful than ou...

Proverbs 9:10 NIV What is wisdom? Is it some destination defined by facts we’ve deduced thanks to the lessons which arrived us at the decisions that’ve often become the destination? Is it rather the journey we take through those lessons that perhaps we’ve not yet learned which asks that we never so endeavor to so determine that we’ve ever arrived at our destination? Is it what we know, facts and figures always found in our trying to figure it out? Is it found and felt in finding we can’t? Is it something we can even find at all? Is it something better felt and that only by faith as we insist it held always in that place that we’re not so that we’ve always something for which to strive while we’re alive inside this life? Is it knowledge? Is it understanding? Among the greatest of all life’s tragedies is found this reality that seems to show that many here seem to know what wisdom is, and that it’s always somehow right where they are living as who they are defined by what they do. Is tha...