Forged By Faith

2 Corinthians 4:16 NIV seeks beyond the surface Inside what is a life in which we slowly begin to realize that not merely are looks often deceiving, sometimes they’re just plain imaginary. And this is a hard thing for us to consider considering how we’ve all walked for years in what is this fear of relying upon anything other than our sense of sight. For so long it’s been but our eyes which have led our lives and that always in accordance with the coordinates given us by the things we’ve seen or sought not to. Indeed, life, as far as we know to live it, it’s been lived in love with our eyes keeping our heads above the surface seeking ways in which to avoid the suffering and find the successes. Yet anymore all I for one seem to see are but the messes from which we shall not walk away. At least not without some sort of price being paid. Thankfully said price was paid by He who came with the express intent to pay it in a kind of permanent that rendered pointless the entirety of all that w...

2 Corinthians 5:1 NIV delights in the dismantling For there’s just this strange sort of something that begins to become what we come to believe was always there waiting for us to stop believing that seeing was the way to find it. Or that it was our efforts which would get us there to wherever it is that we’re going. Or that we’d find our power of some point or purpose along the way. Or that He needed us to have a say as to how the road goes and what does and doesn’t get to go along it with us. Or that it was even about us to begin with. Because it isn’t. And that’s perhaps the main thing that we need to have destroyed. It’s this idea that has had all of us convinced that we’re more important than we are. This theory that we’ve such authority that we can both call and create, invent and that with intent, that our tents are our pride, our prize, our lives thus our own. They’re not. Alas we’ve fallen so in love with the idea that perhaps they could be that all we see are all these ways an...

2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV leans in to the letting go For as this road goes wherever this road knows so too do we slow as to what it was to know as we knew as what we come to know we knew is only that of what becomes a life we’ll only find as a life lived in what was a past dead whenever it’s one day compared to the place to which this road goes. Which, in the very purpose of hope itself, is a place called Heaven in which there’s held little of everything that’s here and thus vastly more of all that isn’t. And yet this hope, a strange curiosity to be sure, it’s one thus paved in mystery and then to be walked in uncertainty. And I for one believe that such was certainly always His point. It was to point us away from all we’ve known so that we might know all we still don’t. To help us to see things that our eyes wouldn’t believe even if they actually could. To teach us things that our minds all but refuse to understand. To show us how to stand in what is basically two places at once, one in ...

Colossians 3:1 NIV starts the reassembly of reality For in Christ, you know, the One who turns tables upside down, seems that so too shall our lives be turned rightside up. And yet this can only come when, again, we are in Him and He then in us. And yet this can only happen when we’ve happened upon the end of us and our love for what, in Him, becomes then what was. And yet we can only have a ‘what was’ whenever we endure whatever it is to endeavor to be undone by what He’s done. And yet that can only just barely begin within what’s been the what is that’s to become, in Him, what was. See what I’m saying? It’s basically that a life spent following Him is one in which everything’s pretty much always changing. I mean, even our perception of change changes. This is something I make mention of all the time anymore. It’s our well-known and thus commonly-help aversion to change. We hate it. We fear it. We feel it something entirely unbecoming of whatever this is that we’ve become. And that’s ...