Forged By Faith

1 Timothy 6:10 NIV The wrong wealth For this world’s wrapped well within this wreath that is the grief gained of this grift that is the thrift of the theft of the souls that we’ve sold to he who wishes to have them for as little as we might give them. And the problem with man is that we’ve come to so devalue ourselves inside this endless pursuit to please only the same that we’ve became always willing to hear his dealing as is done in dollars and all which money can buy. And indeed, in this life money can buy a whole lot that does add to a life such ideals as comfort and safety and the assurance of importance and maybe even the appearance of piety. But money cannot buy life as money is but a root from which things grow. And life doesn’t grow. Rather life starts out as it was intended to be and from that point all of us only flee unto these many faiths as are placed in many things that, while perhaps capable of adding unto a life, they cannot add life to life. Indeed, we’re told in Scri...

1 Timothy 6:9 NIV Ruined in a world of want It amazes me sometimes just the sheer volume of the volume of how much stuff we have around us and how loudly it shouts around us as it wants for us to want it too. Every single day we’re all met first thing in the morning with these millions of make believe majesties that wish for us to agree that they’re something we need as they promise that they’ll make our lives better or bigger or somehow other more filled or full. And so many of them do seem as if they do as they sure seem to for so many others. And as those who look unto our brothers and sisters to be our sisters and brothers, doing then as brothers and sisters ought to do, we fall effortlessly into this trust in all that we see the sum of basically everyone else enjoying. A sight which only adds fuel to the fire that is our fallen human desire for more as was literally began by the very desire to have more. That’s the initial sin that has come to befall a still falling man. It was th...

2 Peter 2:15 NIV The wages of the wind It’s a profit paid in the prosperity of the popularity that’s proven in the pride of a life lived in the lies of the lights that exist to create shadows where our hopes have learned to go. It’s the wealth of a world filled with want and worry and always in a hurry for both but only expecting the one. It’s the gain of a strain strode into the strobes of neon and nonsense, both of which delight to convince that color is better than character. It’s the winning of a life lived sinning against the very reason we’re here which is to go wherever He blows. For there’s freedom found only in following Him who came here to show us that we’ll leave here and to promise us that should we do so atop the narrow then we’d find an eternal treasure which far surpasses not some nor many but all of this world’s pleasures. Problem is that we’re offered daily all this world wants for us to have. Every morning we’re met by a culture that’s curated this endless buffet of ...

Jude 1:11 NIV The sins of our fathers As kids we’re said to have brains that are like sponges, soaking always those things we see and hear and feel and find. And it’s this plasticity that allows our minds to grow into the various curiosities and assurances and confusions that we eventually develop into as adults. It opens us up to the measuring of all the stuff that we see and hear and feel and find and the trying to determine what to repeat in our own lives. And this ability was given us with what was surely intended the understanding that those from whom we’d learn would, as the Bible suggests, start us off in the way we should go. But no. No, rather be it as children who are still violently susceptible to the suggestions given them or even as grown adult women and men we’re all at the mercy of a world always in a hurry to repeat only those things that we see others do, all of us are rather began each day unto the lost way of a world with no love for God remaining. Yet while this ten...

Luke 11:50 NIV An implied implication It’s something of a mystery in need of interpretation, a guess I guess, a recommendation surmised from a surprise situation. It’s a sudden change enforced or inflicted upon something that demands that all someones who were involved in said situation embrace this shift to the demands and destination. An implication is something implied, suggested, hinted at but not made entirely obvious so as to leave at least a little work to be finished by those to whom it’s given. The Gospel is not that kind of situation. Granted, of whom the Gospel is given and toward whom it is then intended to be received, much of the lead up was left and learned within parables shared by He about whom the Gospel is written, spoken, shared however it might have been shared or will be shared in however many days we’ve still to come before the Day’s done came and we’ve all flown away to wherever our forever might be. But still, all such riddles aside, there is nothing that the t...