Forged By Faith

Hebrews 12:4 NIV What is enough? Is it a measure of misery mixed with a moment of peace? Is it a scene showing the sum of something that defines all we’ve done that agrees we could have done no more? Is it a place we go to which we know that we’ve exhausted every opportunity we’ve ever been given before? Is it our experiencing of a level of exhaustion that we’ve never known, a tired that proves more is simply all we’ve not anymore to offer? Is it our offering of all we have, and yet that still somehow defined by what we’re willing to give? Is it giving everything we have with the audacity to actually hold nothing back? Is it enough to feel bad, to know shame, to carry guilt around as if a suitcase that never leaves our side? Is it enough to spend our every single day and so too our every single night allowing our eyes no sleep but rather insisting we tear-stain our shirts and sheets? Is it enough to hit our knees and there ask for forgiveness for the many wrongs we’ve done and all the ...

Luke 22:44 NIV What is earnestly? Is it to undertake something within the understanding of the severity thereof? Is it the ability to see such a seriousness to something that there’s an unavoidable sobriety demanded? Is it a person’s personal perspective having purchased such an awareness of what either they or even another is up against that they find themselves willing to give of themselves whatever it may take to alleviate this danger they see? Is it the ability to even in fact discount danger in what is a moment of such divine anger that sorrow is allowed to override selfishness and its having programmed us to seek first always our own safety? Is it a solemnity that finds one willing finally to face down that which could prove fatality but that with a faith that finds them unafraid to lose what they know is in the hope of what they know could be but only because they do what they feel they have to in order to resolve this issue that is in fact one defined best as between life and d...

Isaiah 53:3 NIV What is esteem? Is it this thing that we’ve invented intended to measure the worth of another’s intent or their content? Is it the degree to which we agree with whoever someone is as is often defined only by whatever someone does? Is it something we do trying to determine who we’re willing to look up to, who we’re willing to follow, who we’ve no such interest or intent? Is it an advent of an event to which we attend what is this coming of either a friend or foe, the difference only defined by what little we know of who another really is? Is it our trying our best to see only the best and that in everyone else? Is it our hoping that everyone else sees in us the best we too are trying to be, and that even though we know we fail more times than not? Is it not our attempt to gauge another’s attempts to be what we alone perceive as being the best? Indeed, to hold someone or something in high esteem is this cultural thing we all then learned to do in which we learn to lose ou...

Hebrews 12:3 NIV What is emulation? Is it a manmade and thus mundane measure of mere mimicry? Is it the supposed sincerity societally seen inside all such forms of familiar flattery? Is it an audacity to do that which another’s done, chosen simply because you enjoy the looks of the outcome? Is it the courage to consider the content of the contest contended against along the way toward said outcome? Is it a willingness to withstand such war as that won by whomever it is that we seek to mimic? Is it truly nothing but our seeking to copy only all that only another has chosen to attempt? Is it an attempt to opt for a path already blazed so as to avoid the barbs and blood as are won within being the first? Is it a thirst for trust, both that seen in us and thus us of them from whom we’ve gleaned this apparent daring to do as they themselves have done? Whatever it is it is indeed a form and function of mirroring. It’s a matter made of our making our minds to, for whatever reason that even ou...