Forged By Faith

Psalm 34:14 NIV chases after change Which is by no means anything that anyone ever seeks to chase as to chase demands we crave and we most certainly do not know to crave change. Rather we’re a people who clearly prefer the ease and comfort of staying always the same. And that’s simply because it is easier. It is more comfortable. It is in many ways utterly comforting to stay who, what, where we are doing there whatever we’ve been doing as it demands nothing of learning, of trying, of hoping even. And that’s simply because a hope had is, to us at least, the best thing we could ever hope to do with hope. To have it. To hold it. To know it and thus to fear it being lost as none want for that for which we’ve hoped to ever become that of which we’d known. No, rather we want all our hopes to be ever with us, to be always near us, to continue this journey within us so as to give us that esteemed assurance that no matter what comes nor where we go nor if we fail, we’ll always have that somethi...

Romans 7:19 NIV makes friends with regret What is a friend though? Well, as we all know, or at least I hope we do, a friend is something trusted that we then know we can turn to. A friend is something we can rely on to be there for us whenever we may need whatever we may need. A friend is someone with whom we share that sort of giving love in which the both of us feel that trust and appreciate then that common reliance. A friend confides in us and we then in they as we both of us have our struggles and scars, stories to tell that we can’t tell just anyone. A friend then is someone in whom we find and feel a connection that’s courageous, caring, kind, compassionate, considerate. Yes, a friend considers us a friend and wants then what all friends should want for all folks and that is the very best of everything. And yet a friend is hopefully based closely unto the vicinity of honesty and therefore knows that, honestly, the very best is never either where we are nor then where we’ve been ...

Revelation 3:19 NIV cuts through correction To be earnest is defined as doing something with what is “a sincere and intense conviction”. It’s the undertaking of something, anything really, in an obvious understanding as to the overall severity thereof. It’s a certain seriousness that accomplishes within us this willingness to actually give something everything we have, to hold nothing back. And, well, the sad truth is that within this life as we’ve all chosen, yes, chosen to live it, fact is that we seem to have little that means so much to us that to it we trust what is the fullness of us. Which is why He corrects us. It’s why He pushes us, challenges us, changes us in fact. It’s because He alone knows both who we were created to be and thus too the difference and distance now defined by whoever it is that we’ve chosen to choose instead. He knows the image in which we were created as, well, that image is His. We were meant to be like Him, to literally be His children, His offspring, H...

Romans 7:16 NIV cuts through a courageous confession As, well, such is simply the one and only direction in which everything better still awaits. It’s in that place in which we’re not, both as of now and too what we are. And this is entirely a strange place for us to consider, this idea of everything better. And that’s because for our to become something better in what hope tells us is a place better too, we’ve to then lose our usual agreement as to the appeasement found both where and in who we are. Which are both what and where we usually mind not imagining our staying put. Because staying has always proven easier. And it will always prove easier. Staying who we are doing then what we’re doing wherever we’re doing it and for whyever it’s being done, this is to be consistently the easiest thing to do under the sun. Which is why there is nothing new under the sun but rather we walk still inside the replication of what’s now a longstanding rebellion. Indeed, that which has been done wil...