Forged By Faith

1 John 5:12 NIV What do we have here? For most the answer to that question usually revolves around something that’s here with us. In fact, the answer is or has been the same for all of us in that all of us have lived all of our lives looking far too interestedly upon the things and theories of this world. We’ve all given entirely too much of our time, our efforts, our energies and imaginings unto those things which we can see thus could hold, could buy within this life that we’ve fairly been convinced that we’ve lived. Because indeed, one would think that to be alive meant that they were living a life. And perhaps we are. Maybe we have. I hope we do or will or at the very least want to as I consider life to be an amazing gift that’s honestly, considering it’s given us daily, entirely easy to overlook and take for granted. I mean, when you continue to receive the same thing day after day, it’s pretty much expected that you’ll probably come to expect it. And this is in every way what eve...

John 17:3 NIV What is life? I’m not sure that there’s a more perplexing question that might be asked amongst those living one than that which asks unto the substance and the assurance and insurance and the inspection and the introspection and the perspective and the preference and opinion and outlook and assumption as to what the meaning is of this thing we’re all here living. In truth I don’t know that there ever can be a question considered that’s in any way more demanding, more daunting, more complex, contentious, confusing, even in many ways compounding. For the reality is that it’s both a question we’ve all already answered innumerable times throughout our lives as it’s one we answer every single time that we give our time, our trial, our torment or torture unto the doing or elsewise enduring of anything that we so agree to go along with being done. But too the simple fact is that we’ve all done so much in and with and to our lives that our estimation then of life is something as ...

1 Timothy 6:19 NIV Get a life Don’t worry, it’s actually remarkably easy to do! For while I know it sounds both confusing, degrading, a little bit childish and a whole lot of rude, the fact is that it’s actually the pursuit that we’ve all been called to. And that’s simply because He who created us at first created us for basically everything better than everything we’ve chosen instead to become and then He actually chose to come to become among us so as to, having put both on us and up with us, save us by doing with His life what none of us had done with ours. And that’s honor God through the violent upholding of His will as if it were all that ever mattered. No, the tragic reality of our reality is that our humanity has really neglected to even simply acknowledge Him. And we’ve in truth done this in every possible way that we could imagine to. We’ve blatantly gone willfully against His Word and will. We’ve brazenly rejected His offering to lead us for the mere repayment of our loving ...

1 Timothy 6:18 NIV Those who have Truth is that we’re all them as we’ve all something either in us or around us or perhaps even about us that allows us what is an affluence in opportunity to be unto humanity, no matter how many, those who dare offer change, inspire hope, encourage a lost and hurting soul. Each of us has here, even if nothing else, a certain amount of time that we can use for literally whatever we like. Problem is that it’s clearly seen that what we all like the very most is thinking about only ourselves. For this world sells this approach to life in which we’re the ones who win. No my friends, we’re here to be the ones who lose. Why? Because that’s what love does. It gives. It cares. It tries. It fights. It shares. It welcomes poverty so that another may have plenty. It wonders as to the chance of a life lived without worry, only for once not for ourselves. It does a little of what Jesus did so perfectly well in that it does, sometimes at least, lay down its life that ...

2 Corinthians 9:9 ESV Reflections They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery unto those who are being imitated as it shows forth a willingness found within another to replicate, as best they can, something that said other has seen or heard or elsewise learned in regard to something they who are being imitated has done or become. It’s something of a round of applause offered via word or deed as is said or done because someone saw or heard someone else say or do something that they thought was good, right, true, worthy then of being reproduced. It’s an agreement unto the worth, the beauty, the simplicity, success or necessity of something that someone has already said or done. But unto those who see such things that they agree to try to redo, imitation has to be the easiest of all things to do. For all it requires is but a bit of study as to what’s been done, how it was done, how we might then redo, resay whatever was said or has been done so that we too can do what we fee...