Forged By Faith

Job 30:27 NKJV What is affliction? Is it a lesson, one taught in misery bought not by us but rather by He who knows the better we can be as is measured against the better we’re not on this side of misery sought? Is it something we seek at all, seeing often no reason at all to do so? Is it something seeking us, something of a monster maybe, a mischief of sorts seeking to distort our lives so vastly that maybe the sum of everything we knew or hoped to know is just gone and not coming back? Is it losing everything we had, comfort the first tragedy? Is it maybe something of an inspection, a test of our flexion seeking for the point of our breaking? Is it maybe something sent to aid in our making what is that life that we’d not have the understanding to live otherwise? Is it something to which we should close our eyes and always wish it away? For that’s usually what it seems we resort to. We always seek for these bargainings in which we offer up something in exchange for our either having s...

Psalm 38:3 KJV What is unrest? Is it a decidedly civil matter measured more often in incivility than elsewise? Is it a cancer considered of a culture in which chaos and confusion define the common delusion? Is it a lack of peace proven always amongst a people as a whole? Is it a hole that perhaps a lone person can sink into all by themselves? Is it a collective of those who buy this collection of lies this world sells seeking to keep us on edge and there at each other’s throats? Is it notes played or sung in song shouted by those who agree to give their lives unto singing along without knowing the lines or reasons? Is it a changing of seasons showing that life is growing toward wherever life’s going? Is it a rut, routine, retinue or revenue that we’ll eventually come to regret having gotten so used to? Indeed, I think it is something better proven in feelings such as guilt and regret and the remorse which determines the course set by such harrowing and hollowing emotions. It’s this sen...

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 ...