Forged By Faith

John 12:46 NIV The removal Inarguably the hardest part which is therefore met more often than not with what continues to prove an all but blanket refusal. And that’s because amongst what we’ve all become is a people who seem still able to see that we’ve simply too much to lose along the Way that is the Life that speaks the Truth of our indeed needing now to lose so much of what’s indeed all but become our life. And this is a proverbial knife right to the throat of what’s easily seen as all but our every hope. And hope is a hard thing to let go! Thankfully another part of this process is that He helps us to see that much if not the majority of what we’ve all thought we knew was neither anything new nor anything known. Rather it’s all mostly been made up, mostly by us but so too those around us, in this almost desperate attempt to keep all of us distracted from the disasters that both we’ve delighted to find and thus pretty much all of life has become. Yes, He comes to help us see our du...

Ephesians 5:8 NIV The recusal It’s an altogether formal withdrawal, a refusal of participation, from what is typically a legal adjudication as there’s found a measure of potential bias, either personal or professional, by which the party being withdrawn is removed so as to prevent said bias from becoming the potential grounds to cause doubt in the overall outcome of the preceding. In other words it’s a “legal process by which a judge, juror, or other adjudicator steps aside from participating in a case due to potential bias, conflict of interest, or appearance of impropriety.” Just in the case of our faith we’re neither the judge nor the jury, just far more likely to eventually face the executioner because, well, that’s what this world determined was best for Jesus. And He’s the One we’re here to follow in what’s become a world so vastly unchanged from those days in which the culture gathered together and demanded this Man be crucified. Not sure when nor where we managed to get it in o...

Colossians 1:13 NIV The rupture Don’t know if it’s something that comes for us all, albeit at different times due to our different walks through a world diverging from what each of us may have once hoped life here could have been but so severely hasn’t become, or if it’s something that only a few of us ever manage to meet and muddle through. Shoot, for all I know it’s something that’s already dawned upon most and I’m just late to the game as is played by our walking away from what is the place that it still seems as if most haven’t so determined to leave. Either way, it feels as if there’s a coming day, or a day that already came, in which our minds finally find that we don’t feel as if we belong here anymore. Again, that may just be me and something that’s been on my heart for a while now in this life lived in a world that’s falling apart. It might just be that I might just be tired or frustrated or afraid even. I don’t really know how to explain it or much less when it began but the ...

Galatians 1:4 NIV The rescue From what remains a place in which most still seek their refuge inside of what is veritable refuse because many here refuse to admit they’ve lived to lose what was the life they’ve now never known thanks to our all having known what isn’t a life at all. Indeed, the normality of what’s now commonality amongst all of humanity is so contrary to that for which we were created that the Creator himself had to come down among us in order to, from within us, die just to lift us up and out of what we’ve become. Meaning then that what we remain is nothing but a people who curse the rain for making our food grow, who detest pain for making us grow, who loathe that which is plain because we think we’ve better ideas toward which to go all while we go exceedingly nowhere but rather seem to deepen daily in our delight to deprive ourselves of life here inside what remains a place in which that which was present then has never changed. For the evil remains. Yes, there is st...