Forged By Faith

John 19:30 NIV “It is finished” And by it He meant all of it. Every bit of the Old Testament and every prophecy spoken within it. Every ounce of the waiting and worry won within the hearts and hopes of those who’d lived it. Every moment in which mercy was needed but never given. Every time that love was offered a chance to come to life but was elsewise rejected. Every word spoken that had no business being uttered. Every action ever undertaken that caused only the sort of suffering that He had now completed. Every life that had been lived in an enemy’s enmity as thrown in the face of the God who had now come to help us see what we had become. It was over. This is in every possible way one of the easiest ideas to contemplate and yet arguably the most difficult to even begin thinking about. For in this life we’ve all been given the ability to have met many things, thoughts, theories that have long since met their conclusion. We know the gravity of something ending. And, well, we know tha...

James 4:4 NIV An enemy’s enmity It’s much like a friend’s foolishness in that they either with whom or against who we choose to live, to think, to walk, to talk, to believe, these same are seen as through a lens of what is a personal bias as is always based upon our own personal measure in regard to how much they matter and to what direction they do. For friendship invites us to overlook the many little imperfections that are always present within a person while an enemy’s mindset is rather sat upon at first finding said flaws and then figuring out how best to use them to one’s own advantage. Problem then becoming that, in this case at least, we have no advantage in seeking to use God’s flaws, weaknesses, imperfections against Him. Because He has none. Rather we’ve merely become so dumb as a people who’ve long lived seeking friendship with one another, a decent and worthy pursuit commonly, but thus too with a people who have chosen to continue living as if He isn’t as is seen inside al...

Romans 8:7 NIV Hostility’s impossibility There’s this inner drive that’s alive in life in which we find this fear of failing to be found as those pleased and impressed by what is this idea that we ourselves are impressive enough to deserve such pleasure ourselves. It’s indeed what drives nearly all that we all do in life. Granted, it’s one of the single greatest lies ever told. But still, it seems to matter not as rather the lie holds as life goes the same way it’s now gone for all time, just somehow in a decidedly scarier degree. Because the lie remains alive and yet nowadays it seems to drive not only us to our limits in search of any and all vanities but also the entirety of humanity closer and closer to the edge of insanity. And I think this is proven inside such a delusion that has inspired us to define insanity as the doing of the same thing over and over again whilst expecting different results every time we try. And indeed, this is an insane way to spend a life, doing always no...

Romans 8:6 NIV Life and peace What a piece to have of a promise to come in this life we live in the place we’ll lose all we love of what we’ll find was only barely a life that was only barely alive as eternity will soon prove both far better, far bigger, far longer and far fuller! Alas it seems so often that it’s almost impossible for us to imagine such a gift being given thanks to our standing inside what remains the one place in which we fight to live a life as best we can. And while that can be a good thing as doing our best is the least we can do, choosing to remain focused on the world while we do our best is the worst choice we could choose. Why? Because everything here is already gone. And life itself then, this one we’ve always known, it’s merely a matter of eternity’s inevitability waiting for us to catch up and realize that to be the truth. This is indeed why God remains so patient with us. It’s not because we deserve it as most days we make clear that we most certainly don’t...